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One in 20 US homicides are committed by police – and the numbers aren’t falling

Police killings of any sort account for nearly 5% of all homicides, with at least 1,192 people killed by law enforcement in 2022
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Some police departments have much higher rates of police killings than others. In Vallejo, California, which is known for police violence, the police department was responsible for 30% of the city’s homicides in 2012. Police killed six people that year; a single officer killed three people in three different incidents, and was later promoted.

More than 32,000 Americans have been killed by police since 1980, but official public health statistics have undercounted the number of killings for decades, according to a 2021 studyfrom University of Washington researchers published in the Lancet, a prominent medical journal. Over the past four decades, US police have killed Black people at a rate 3.5 times higher than white people, and have also killed Hispanic and Indigenous people at higher rates, the study estimated.

The rate of fatalities from police violence rose even when the nation’s overall homicide rate sharply declined, with the rate of deaths from police violence rising 38% from the 1980s to the 2010s, the study found.
 
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“I am not sure what circumstances the patient was held in incarceration but it is difficult to understand a rectal temperature of 72 degree Fahrenheit while someone is incarcerated in jail,” wrote the emergency room physician in his medical records, according to the lawsuit. “I do not know if he could have been exposed to a cold environment. I do believe that hypothermia was the ultimate cause of his death.”

It’s “likely” that Mitchell was placed in a restraint chair in the jail kitchen’s walk-in freezer or another frigid environment and left there for hours, according to the lawsuit filed Monday.

“From the information we have received, we believe it was the jail freezer or cooler, but we do not at this time have video to confirm that,” William Smith, an attorney for Wiggins Childs, the Birmingham law firm that filed the suit, told The Washington Post. “We believe the sheriff’s office has video showing exactly what happened to him.”
 
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