A study of nearly 1,900 fatal police encounters and millions of birth records in California suggests that police killings of unarmed black people may affect the health of black infants before they are even born.
An algorithm used to inform healthcare decisions for millions of people shows significant racial bias in its predictions of the health risks of black patients.Legewie wanted to see whether living with the threat of police violence could be a contributing factor.
He combined this data with records from the Fatal Encounters database, a journalist-led system that collects publicly available information on police violence. A total of 1,891 officer-involved killings were included in the analysis, all of them occurring in California between 2005 and 2017; 164 of those cases centered on unarmed black victims.
more than 80 grams, depending in part on how far along the pregnancy was at the time of the killing. “This finding indicates that the effect is race specific and driven by perceptions of discrimination and structural racism instead of general threats of crime and violence,” he wrote in the paper.
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