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Police kill about 3 men per day in the US, according to new study

  • Written by Frank Edwards, Postdoctoral Associate, Bronfenbrenner Center for Translational Research, Cornell University
There are multiple efforts to count police homicides in the U.S.a katz/shutterstock

Police in the U.S. kill on average more than 1,000 men per year, or about three men per day. According to our estimates, police are responsible for about 8 percent of all adult male homicide deaths in the U.S. each year.

These estimates come from our study,...

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