Study thought to be the first national accounting of both juvenile injuries and deaths from shootings by police in U.S.
By Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Image: screenshot from article, January 30, 2025
A new study led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions found that 317 juveniles under age 18 were shot by police between 2015 and 2020, one-third of them fatally. The Center for Gun Violence Solutions is based at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Shootings of juveniles by police represented about 3% of the 10,000-plus shootings by police during the six-year period. The average age of juveniles shot by police was 15.5 years old versus an average age of 36 years old for adults shot by police.
The study, published online November 19 in theJournal of Adolescent Health, is thought to be the first national study of juvenile injuries and deaths due to shootings by police in the U.S.
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