More than 300 black Americans (many unarmed) killed a year in the US

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.

turns out is was all antifa's fault

Originally posted by Bashar Teg
turns out is was all antifa's fault

they'll opportunistically derail it though. that's why i figured i'd throw them a bone

Originally posted by Bashar Teg
they'll opportunistically derail it though. that's why i figured i'd throw them a bone

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.

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:

Yikes! Those numbers are both tragic and damning at the same time. Awful.

Yeah, but those numbers and that chart are racist, Surt... shame on you, Nazi, for pointing out facts that hurt fee fees.

You're looking at different things. Good try! 😂

Originally posted by Surtur
It's not even just deaths. Overall violence is..well, since they love facts so much:

Yikes! Those numbers are both tragic and damning at the same time. Awful.

Pb what’s your response.

Waiting....

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.

Originally posted by Surtur
It's not even just deaths. Overall violence is..well, since they love facts so much:

Yikes! Those numbers are both tragic and damning at the same time. Awful.

Cool, story. Now weight it by percentage of population.

Originally posted by BrolyBlack
Pb what’s your response.

Originally posted by Adam_PoE
Cool, story. Now weight it by percentage of population.

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?

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.

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.

Doesn’t matter, the numbers don’t change just because you say they do.

Originally posted by Adam_PoE
Cool, story. Now weight it by percentage of population.

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.