55,400 Killed, Hospitalized By US Cops In One Year: Study
MEP: A new study has revealed that approximately 55,400 people were killed or injured by US cops during legal stop and search incidents in one year.
Of this number, about 1,000 were killed, with vast majority dying from gunshot wounds. The remaining 54,400 were hospitalized with serious injuries, mostly from blunt objects.
The study, titled ‘Perils of police action: a cautionary tale from US data sets,’ covers the year 2012 and offers greater context to the issue of police brutality, which has only grown bigger in the four years since the research.
The research published in the British Medical Journal demonstrates the danger posed to citizens by the most routine police practice of a “legal stop.”
The research found that the numbers aren’t distributed evenly when it comes to race, ethnicity, or age.
“Blacks, Native Americans and Hispanics had higher stop/arrest rates per 10,000 population than white non-Hispanics and Asians,” the study’s authors stated.
However, the study found that when black people are stopped or arrested by US police, they are “no more likely” than white people to be killed during that incident.
In 2015, there were 1,207 people killed by police across the US, according to Killed By Police resource data.
