Mental health

Reconsidering a prominent finding on the spillover effects of police killings of unarmed Black Americans

This analysis reproduces Bor et al.’s (2018) [seminal study](https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(18)31130-9) of the effect of police killings of unarmed Black Americans on the mental health of Black communities. Using BRFSS data, a national repeated …

Police Killings of Unarmed Black Americans: A Reassessment of Community Mental Health Spillover Effects

Correcting 91 misclassified incidents renders Bor et al.’s (2018) key finding non-significant.

New preprint: Do police killings of unarmed persons really have spillover effects?

Correcting 91 misclassified incidents renders Bor et al.'s (2018) key finding non-significant.