FAU Study on Mortality from Legal Intervention (IMAGE)

Florida Atlantic University

FAU Study on Mortality from Legal Intervention

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Between 1999 and 2013 in the United States, between 279 (in 2000) to 507 (in 2012) people were killed each year by legal intervention or law enforcement, other than by legal execution. In 2013, an estimated 11.3 million arrests in the US resulted in approximately 480 deaths from legal intervention. Between 1999 and 2013, there were 5,511 deaths by legal intervention.

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Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine, Florida Atlantic University

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