I'm sure that the poor diets of those impacted by these police tactics has nothing to do with the resulting negative health issues. I'm filing this under the People Make Stuff Up column.
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Previous research suggests police surveillance practices confer health risks to community members. This study examines whether the public health burden of excessive or ethnoracially inequitable police use of force are amplified by ethnoracial composition. Multilevel models are used to assess data from New York City Community Health Survey merged at the United Hospital Fund level with data from the New York City Stop, Question, and Frisk Database. The illness associations of ethnoracial composition are amplified by the areal density of police use of force but buffered by the disproportionate police use of force against minorities. Specifically, living in minority communities with a high concentration of use of force by police against pedestrians is associated with an increased risk of diabetes and obesity. However, living in areas with a heavy presence of whites where there are large racial differences in police use of force is associated with an increased risk of poor/fair self-rated health, high blood pressure, diabetes, and obesity.
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