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Old Jun 09, 2020, 02:31 PM
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I agree that Treatment Advocacy Center is a great website! Coincidentally, I also recently found stats supporting what you refer to. Assuming they are accurate, I read that black Americans are 2 1/2 times more likely to die in police interactions than white Americans. The mentally ill, including mentally ill of color, 16 times more likely to die in similar situations. The sources for these stats are in articles I mention in one of my posts on page 1 of this thread.
Thank you so much for those references, BD. really appreciate it.
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