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Disaggregating Asian American and Pacific Islander Risk of Fatal Police Violence
PloS one, v 17(10), e0274745
10 Oct 2022
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Abstract
High rates and racial inequities in U.S. fatal police violence are an urgent area of public health concern and policy attention. Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPIs) have been described as experiencing low rates of fatal police violence, yet AAPI subgroups vary widely on nearly every demographic and economic metric. Here, we calculate fatal police violence rates by AAPI regional and national/ethnic background, finding wide variation. We compile a list of AAPI people killed in interactions with police in 2013-2019, then use web searches and surname algorithms to identify decedents' backgrounds. Rates are then calculated by combining this numerator data with population denominators from the American Community Survey and fitting Poisson models. Excluding 18% of deaths with missing regional backgrounds, East and South Asian Americans died at a rate of 0.05 and 0.04 deaths per 100,000 (95% CI: 0.04-0.06 and 0.02-0.08), respectively, less than a third of Southeast Asian Americans' rate (0.16, CI: 0.13-0.19). Pacific Islanders suffered higher rates (0.88, CI: 0.65-1.19), on par with Native and Black Americans. More granularly, Southeast Asian American groups displaced by US war in Southeast Asia suffered higher rates than others from the same region. Traditional racial classifications thus obscure high risks of fatal police violence for AAPI subgroups. Disaggregation is needed to improve responses to fatal police violence and its racial/ethnic inequities.
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- Title
- Disaggregating Asian American and Pacific Islander Risk of Fatal Police Violence
- Creators
- Gabriel L Schwartz - University of California, San FranciscoJaquelyn L Jahn - Drexel University, Epidemiology and Biostatistics
- Publication Details
- PloS one, v 17(10), e0274745
- Publisher
- Public Library of Science
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Urban Health Collaborative; Dana and David Dornsife School of Public Health; Epidemiology and Biostatistics; Health Management and Policy
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000924647500009
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-85139573290
- Other Identifier
- 991019173943104721
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- Public, Environmental & Occupational Health