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This one's fun†, too: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/08/08/police-shootings-are-leading-cause-death-young-american-men-new-research-shows/ https:

This one's fun†, too: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/08/08/police-shootings-are-leading-cause-death-young-american-men-new-research-shows/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/08/08/police-sh... "Among men of all races, ages 25 to 29, police killings are the sixth-leading cause of death, according to a study led by Frank Edwards of Rutgers University, with a total annual mortality risk of 1.8 deaths per 100,000 people. Accidental death, a category that includes automotive accidents and drug overdoses, was the biggest cause at 76.6 deaths per 100,000, and followed by suicide (26.7), other homicides (22.0), heart disease (7.0), and cancer (6.3)." † fun == sickening

hn8788 6y ago
If you're aged 25-29 though, what else are you going to die of? Those 6 categories cover pretty much any way you can die except diseases.
- faitswulff 6y ago
  I mean, they could just not be killed.
  - recursive 6y ago
    Those cases aren't represented in the list of top causes of death.
ROARosen 6y ago
It says "police killings are the sixth-leading cause of death". "Police killings" by definition includes shootouts, when they were fired at fist, seriously threatened with firearms etc. Sure, police interaction can and should be strongly looked-at and there have been much too much unwarranted deaths by police but just attributing some cause-of-death ranking to police killings without justified/unjustified contextualization is downright misleading.
manfredo 6y ago
So for every man killed by police (note that this is all police killings including those of armed suspects fighting the police) there's 42 people killed in accidents, 13 people commit suicide, 11 murdered by normal people's, 3.5 that die of heart disease, and 2 that die of cancer. And this is specifically for the demographic most likely to commit violent crime: young men. Another way of phrasing this is, "even among the gender and age group most likely to be killed by police, people are an order of magnitude more likely to die of accidents, at the hands of non-police, or by their own hand than at the hands of a police officer."
- La1n 6y ago
  Yes? Just because other things happen more often doesn't mean something isn't an issue.
  - kortilla 6y ago
    That includes violent criminals being shot out of self defense. I wonder what the stat is for murder by cops when the victim didn’t have a deadly weapon.

hn8788 6y ago

If you're aged 25-29 though, what else are you going to die of? Those 6 categories cover pretty much any way you can die except diseases.

faitswulff 6y ago
I mean, they could just not be killed.
- recursive 6y ago
  Those cases aren't represented in the list of top causes of death.

ROARosen 6y ago

It says "police killings are the sixth-leading cause of death". "Police killings" by definition includes shootouts, when they were fired at fist, seriously threatened with firearms etc. Sure, police interaction can and should be strongly looked-at and there have been much too much unwarranted deaths by police but just attributing some cause-of-death ranking to police killings without justified/unjustified contextualization is downright misleading.

manfredo 6y ago

So for every man killed by police (note that this is all police killings including those of armed suspects fighting the police) there's 42 people killed in accidents, 13 people commit suicide, 11 murdered by normal people's, 3.5 that die of heart disease, and 2 that die of cancer. And this is specifically for the demographic most likely to commit violent crime: young men. Another way of phrasing this is, "even among the gender and age group most likely to be killed by police, people are an order of magnitude more likely to die of accidents, at the hands of non-police, or by their own hand than at the hands of a police officer."

La1n 6y ago
Yes? Just because other things happen more often doesn't mean something isn't an issue.
- kortilla 6y ago
  That includes violent criminals being shot out of self defense. I wonder what the stat is for murder by cops when the victim didn’t have a deadly weapon.