The Centers for Disease Control and Preventions National Vital Statistics Systemoffers another view into officers use of deadly force. In 2011, the CDC counted 460 people who died by legal intervention involving a firearm discharge. In theory, this includes any death caused by a law enforcement or state agent (it does not include legal executions). The CDCs cause-of-death data, based on death certificates collected at the state level, also reveals a profound racial disparity among the victims of police shootings.Between 1968 and 2011, black people were between two to eight times more likely to die at the hands of law enforcement than whites. Annually, over those 40 years, a black person was on average 4.2 times as likely to get shot and killed by a cop than a white person. The disparity dropped to 2-to-1 between 2003 and 2009, lower than the 4-to-1 disparity shown in the BJS data over those same years. The CDCs database of emergency room records also shows similar racial disparities among those injured by police. cdc.gov/nchs/products/nvsr.htm
Posted on: Wed, 26 Nov 2014 04:04:28 +0000
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