Ninth-grade students who lived near the site of a police killing were about 3.5% less likely to graduate from high school
GEORGE FLOYD’S death at the hands of a Minneapolis police officer on May 25th has sparked a national reckoning over police violence in America. It is a wonder it did not come sooner. Around 1,000 people are killed by the police each year, many of them black. On June 12th 27-year-old Rayshard Brooks became the latest such victim to gain national attention after he was shot twice in the back by Atlanta police in a fast-food parking lot.
To investigate the link between police violence and educational outcomes, Desmond Ang, a professor at Harvard University, combined demographic data on more than 700,000 high-school students in a south-western American city with the locations of 627 police killings in the surrounding county between 2002 and 2016.
It was not just the students’ academic performance that suffered; so did their mental and emotional well-being. Students who lived near to where someone had been killed by police were 15% more likely to be diagnosed with an “emotional disturbance” . The author found that only students of black and Hispanic backgrounds, the groups that are most likely to be killed by a cop, were affected by police killings: their GPAs fell by an average of 0.04 and 0.03 points, respectively.
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