More than 300 black Americans (many unarmed) killed a year in the US
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Old Man Whirly!
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(18)31130-9/fulltext
Summary
Background
Police kill more than 300 black Americans—at least a quarter of them unarmed—each year in the USA. These events might have spillover effects on the mental health of people not directly affected.
Methods
In this population-based, quasi-experimental study, we combined novel data on police killings with individual-level data from the nationally representative 2013–15 US Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) to estimate the causal impact of police killings of unarmed black Americans on self-reported mental health of other black American adults in the US general population. The primary exposure was the number of police killings of unarmed black Americans occurring in the 3 months prior to the BRFSS interview within the same state. The primary outcome was the number of days in the previous month in which the respondent's mental health was reported as “not good”. We estimated difference-in-differences regression models—adjusting for state-month, month-year, and interview-day fixed effects, as well as age, sex, and educational attainment. We additionally assessed the timing of effects, the specificity of the effects to black Americans, and the robustness of our findings.
Findings
38 993 (weighted sample share 49%) of 103 710 black American respondents were exposed to one or more police killings of unarmed black Americans in their state of residence in the 3 months prior to the survey. Each additional police killing of an unarmed black American was associated with 0·14 additional poor mental health days (95% CI 0·07–0·22; p=0·00047) among black American respondents. The largest effects on mental health occurred in the 1–2 months after exposure, with no significant effects estimated for respondents interviewed before police killings (falsification test). Mental health impacts were not observed among white respondents and resulted only from police killings of unarmed black Americans (not unarmed white Americans or armed black Americans).
Interpretation
Police killings of unarmed black Americans have adverse effects on mental health among black American adults in the general population. Programmes should be implemented to decrease the frequency of police killings and to mitigate adverse mental health effects within communities when such killings do occur.
Bashar Teg
turns out is was all antifa's fault
Old Man Whirly!
Originally posted by Bashar Teg
turns out is was all antifa's fault Trust me no Alt-right posters will touch this thread.
Bashar Teg
they'll opportunistically derail it though. that's why i figured i'd throw them a bone
Old Man Whirly!
Originally posted by Bashar Teg
they'll opportunistically derail it though. that's why i figured i'd throw them a bone

undoubtedly, they hate real facts.
BrolyBlack
Originally posted by Old Man Whirly!
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(18)31130-9/fulltext
Summary
Background
Police kill more than 300 black Americans—at least a quarter of them unarmed—each year in the USA. These events might have spillover effects on the mental health of people not directly affected.
Methods
In this population-based, quasi-experimental study, we combined novel data on police killings with individual-level data from the nationally representative 2013–15 US Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) to estimate the causal impact of police killings of unarmed black Americans on self-reported mental health of other black American adults in the US general population. The primary exposure was the number of police killings of unarmed black Americans occurring in the 3 months prior to the BRFSS interview within the same state. The primary outcome was the number of days in the previous month in which the respondent's mental health was reported as “not good”. We estimated difference-in-differences regression models—adjusting for state-month, month-year, and interview-day fixed effects, as well as age, sex, and educational attainment. We additionally assessed the timing of effects, the specificity of the effects to black Americans, and the robustness of our findings.
Findings
38 993 (weighted sample share 49%) of 103 710 black American respondents were exposed to one or more police killings of unarmed black Americans in their state of residence in the 3 months prior to the survey. Each additional police killing of an unarmed black American was associated with 0·14 additional poor mental health days (95% CI 0·07–0·22; p=0·00047) among black American respondents. The largest effects on mental health occurred in the 1–2 months after exposure, with no significant effects estimated for respondents interviewed before police killings (falsification test). Mental health impacts were not observed among white respondents and resulted only from police killings of unarmed black Americans (not unarmed white Americans or armed black Americans).
Interpretation
Police killings of unarmed black Americans have adverse effects on mental health among black American adults in the general population. Programmes should be implemented to decrease the frequency of police killings and to mitigate adverse mental health effects within communities when such killings do occur.
Awful, and the number of unarmed whites that are killed are triple or quadruple this.
Surtur
Originally posted by BrolyBlack
Awful, and the number of unarmed whites that are killed are triple or quadruple this.
It's not even just deaths. Overall violence is..well, since they love facts so much:
https://i.imgur.com/LwZcCAS.jpg
Yikes! Those numbers are both tragic and damning at the same time. Awful.
eThneoLgrRnae
Yeah, but those numbers and that chart are racist, Surt... shame on you, Nazi, for pointing out facts that hurt fee fees.
Old Man Whirly!
You're looking at different things. Good try!

Adam_PoE
Originally posted by BrolyBlack
Awful, and the number of unarmed whites that are killed are triple or quadruple this.
There are over five times as many white people as black people in this country, so even if that were true, black people would still be disproportionately killed more by police.
Adam_PoE
Originally posted by Surtur
It's not even just deaths. Overall violence is..well, since they love facts so much:
https://i.imgur.com/LwZcCAS.jpg
Yikes! Those numbers are both tragic and damning at the same time. Awful.
Cool, story. Now weight it by percentage of population.
Old Man Whirly!
Originally posted by Adam_PoE
Cool, story. Now weight it by percentage of population. the other key point.
BrolyBlack
Originally posted by Adam_PoE
Cool, story. Now weight it by percentage of population.
Your clearly not understanding the poll. Do you see the Hispanic on White Crime?
Adam_PoE
Originally posted by BrolyBlack
Your clearly not understanding the poll. Do you see the Hispanic on White Crime?
First, it is not a poll. Second, you are not understanding the statistics. The U.S. is a majority-white country. Therefore, it should be expected that whites will represent the majority of victims of incidents of violent crime. You know, by virtue of their being more white people than all other groups. If you are a perpetrator intent on committing a violent crime, you only have 2 out of 100 opportunities to attack an Asian person, but you have 3 out 5 opportunities to attack a white person. This is not hard.
Scribble
Originally posted by Adam_PoE
Cool, story. Now weight it by percentage of population. What is 13% but also half? hmm
Old Man Whirly!
Originally posted by Adam_PoE
First, it is not a poll. Second, you are not understanding the statistics. The U.S. is a majority-white country. Therefore, it should be expected that whites will represent the majority of victims of incidents of violent crime. You know, by virtue of their being more white people than all other groups. If you are a perpetrator intent on committing a violent crime, you only have 2 out of 100 opportunities to attack an Asian person, but you have 3 out 5 opportunities to attack a white person. This is not hard. it truly isn't, but they will struggle, where these crimes occur also compound this further still.
Adam_PoE
Originally posted by Scribble
What is 13% but also half? hmm
Cool story. Now let us include incidents of intraracial violent crime and see how the numbers shake out.
BrolyBlack
Originally posted by Scribble
What is 13% but also half? hmm

BrolyBlack
Originally posted by Adam_PoE
Cool story. Now let us include incidents of intraracial violent crime and see how the numbers shake out.
Stop it..
Old Man Whirly!
Originally posted by Adam_PoE
Cool story. Now let us include incidents of intraracial violent crime and see how the numbers shake out.

Exactly
dadudemon
Originally posted by Adam_PoE
There are over five times as many white people as black people in this country, so even if that were true, black people would still be disproportionately killed more by police.
Originally posted by Adam_PoE
Cool, story. Now weight it by percentage of population.
I'll try and create new graphs, later today, bases somewhat on your input.
I'll use crime victimization by the race of the perpetrator. And I'll weight violent confrontations with police by race and by death by cop.
Note: note a single one of these numbers will prove your point and just makes it look worse. I don't know why you want to do this. But I'll take a look.
cdtm
Originally posted by Adam_PoE
There are over five times as many white people as black people in this country, so even if that were true, black people would still be disproportionately killed more by police.
This is one of those things I'd ask to be treated as an idiot on, because I'm probably about to talk like one.
On percentages, is that a good measuring stick to detect racism?
I mean, if you took the population of China and compared it, say, Taiwan, wouldn't the statistics be naturally skewed simply because China has so many more people? A million Taiwanese get murdered, that would be a drop in the bucket for China.
Blacks represent 12-13% of the US population.
jaden_2.0
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