With all that’s going on with Ferguson and the “I Can’t Breathe” campaign, to some, the information uncovered by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) may not be too shocking. However, the majority must not know, so that’s why it was reported on. However, the CDC found that there is a sizable disparity in nonlethal, police inflicted injuries. If you haven’t guessed, police are putting way more Black people in the hospital than Whites.
The report came on the heels of the Marlene Pinnock controversy where a California Highway Patrol officer savagely beat the older Black woman in broad daylight on the side of the road. Though that made its rounds in the viral world, there are tens of thousands of people injured by police every year. The CDC found that not only are more Black people hospitalized every year by police, but the trend has increased over the years. The study shows that five times more Black people are injured non-fatally than Whites by police. Those numbers cover from 2001 to 2012.
It is noted that 17 percent of the people in the study had no race assigned to them. However, if all of those people were, by chance, White, Blacks would still be hospitalized three times more by police. It was also discovered that Blacks experience negative interactions with police more than Whites. In 2008, it was discovered that three times more Blacks experience the use or threat of force than Whites.
This is important to keep in mind with everything that’s happening in the country right now.
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