| Existing comment:
Violent encounters with the police have profound effects on health, life expectancy, neighborhoods, and politics. Policing plays a pivotal role in maintaining structural inequalities between people of color and white people in the United States. The killings of Oscar Grant, Michael Brown, Charleena Lyles, Stephon Clark, and Tamir Rice, among many others, have underscored the racialized character of police violence against civilians. Social scientists and public health scholars now widely acknowledge that police contact is a crucial vector of health inequality and a factor of early mortality for people of color. |