Police-Related Deaths and Neighborhood Economic and Racial/Ethnic Polarization, United States, 2015–2016

• Autores: Justin M. Feldman, Sofia Gruskin, Brent A. Coull, Nancy Krieger
• Localización: American journal of public health, ISSN 0090-0036, Vol. 109, Nº. 3, 2019, págs. 458-464
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Objectives. To estimate the association between rates of police-related deaths and neighborhood residential segregation (by income, race/ethnicity, or both combined) in the United States.Methods. We identified police-related deaths that occurred in the United States (2015?2016) using a data set from the Guardian newspaper. We used census data to estimate expected police-related death counts for all US census tracts and to calculate the Index of Concentration at the Extremes as a segregation measure. We used multilevel negative binomial models for the analyses.Results. Overall, police-related death rates were highest in neighborhoods with the greatest concentrations of low-income residents (vs high-income residents) and residents of color (vs non-Hispanic White residents). For non-Hispanic Blacks, however, the risk was greater in the quintile of neighborhoods with the highest concentration of non-Hispanic White residents than in certain neighborhoods with relatively higher concentrations of residents of color (the third and fourth quintiles).Conclusions. Neighborhood context matters?beyond individual race/ethnicity?for understanding, preventing, and responding to the occurrence of police-related deaths.Public Health Implications. Efforts to monitor, prevent, and respond to police-related deaths should consider neighborhood context, including levels of segregation by income and race/ethnicity.