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In One Year, 57,375 Years of Life Were Lost to Police Violence

A new study finds police killings exact a toll greater than accidental gun deaths.
Source: Mike Blake / Reuters

People killed by police in 2015 and 2016 had a median age of 35, and they still had an average of about 50 years left to live when they died. It’s this metric—the gap between how long someone lives and how long they were expected to live—that’s the focus of a new study by Anthony Bui, Matthew Coates, and Ellicott Matthay in the

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