{"id":23239,"date":"2020-05-29T21:48:23","date_gmt":"2020-05-30T01:48:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/?p=23239"},"modified":"2020-05-29T21:48:25","modified_gmt":"2020-05-30T01:48:25","slug":"getting-killed-by-police-is-a-leading-cause-of-death-for-young-black-men-in-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/?p=23239","title":{"rendered":"Getting killed by police is a leading cause of death for young black men in America"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/science\/story\/2019-08-15\/police-shootings-are-a-leading-cause-of-death-for-black-men\">Getting killed by police is a leading cause of death for young black men in America<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;About 1 in 1,000 black men and boys in America can expect to die at the hands of police, according to a new analysis of deaths involving law enforcement officers. That makes them 2.5 times more likely than white men and boys to die during an encounter with cops.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;\u201cThe United States is unique among wealthy democracies in terms of the number of people that are killed by its police forces,\u201d Feldman said. \u201cI think the No. 1 thing it comes down to is a lack of accountability by police departments, both legally and politically.\u201d&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Getting killed by police is a leading cause of death for young black men in America &#8220;About 1 in 1,000 black men and boys in America can expect to die at the hands of police, according to a new analysis &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/?p=23239\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-justice","category-politique-americaine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23239"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23240,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23239\/revisions\/23240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}