Blacks, Hispanics and Native Americans are more likely to get arrested by police compared to white and Asian people in the United States, new research finds.
“Blacks, Native Americans and Hispanics had higher stop/arrest rates per 10,000 population than white non-Hispanics and Asians,” said Ted Miller of the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation in Maryland, who led the study.
“US police killed or injured an estimated 55,400 people in 2012,” Miller and his colleagues wrote in the journal Injury Prevention.
“On an average day, three people die and 150 people are treated at a hospital because they are injured by police,” Miller told NBC News.
His team pulled together statistics from wherever they could find them, including the FBI, state police websites, hospital records, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and two investigative series by the Washington Post and Guardian newspapers.
Blacks make up about 13 percent of the American…