If you’re a young man in America today – and especially a young black man – you might want to give law enforcement a wide berth. A new study found that shootings, choke holds, and other uses of force by police officers, whether warranted or not, are now the sixth-highest cause of death for males between the ages of 25 and 29.
The study, conducted by researchers at Rutgers University-Newark and published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, also found that black men are two-and-a-half times more likely to be killed by law enforcement over their lifetime than white men, and that African-American women, American Indian/Alaska native men and women, and Latino men also face higher odds of dying at police hands.
The risk of death for each group is highest between the ages of 20 and 35 and declines with age.
The total annual deaths by police are less than 1,000.... and that's ALL ages.
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Not many 25 year olds must die in America, if a few hundred can be the 6th leading cause of death. I'd have to believe that AIDS alone takes far more.