GBD Study | Dr. Alexes Harris Discusses Police Violence in the United States (1980-2018)
Published September 30, 2021
Video transcript: The analysis finds that African Americans in this country are killed at a rate 3.5 times higher than White people by police. The data really highlight that we have a serious problem, and the authors frame it in a public health approach. So many different groups, from policymakers to advocates to commissions, have been calling for an approach to really decrease the use of force, but many folks have been really hiding behind the lack of numbers, and the lack of numbers highlighting the racial disparities in this country. This report now calls us to the carpet and asks us what are we going to do to address this violence?