TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2016//
TI  - Racial/ethnic disparities in the use of lethal force by U.S. police, 2010-2014
JO  - American journal of public health
A1  - Buehler, James W.
SP  - 295
EP  - 297
VL  - 107
IS  - 2
N2  - OBJECTIVES: To update previous examinations of racial/ethnic disparities in the use of lethal force by US police. <br><br>METHODS: I examined online national vital statistics data for deaths assigned an underlying cause of "legal intervention" (International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision, external-cause-of-injury codes Y35.0-Y35.7, excluding Y35.5 [legal execution]) for the 5-year period 2010 to 2014. <br><br>RESULTS: Death certificates identified 2285 legal intervention deaths (1.5 per million population per year) from 2010 to 2014. Among males aged 10 years or older, who represented 96% of these deaths, the mortality rate among non-Hispanic Black and Hispanic individuals was 2.8 and 1.7 times higher, respectively, than that among White individuals. <br><br>CONCLUSIONS: Substantial racial/ethnic disparities in legal intervention deaths remain an ongoing problem in the United States. (Am J Public Health. Published online ahead of print December 20, 2016: e1-e3. doi:10.2105/AJPH.2016.303575).<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0090-0036
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2016.303575
ID  - ref1
ER  -