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amanaplanacanal • today at 3:01 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

Wait, 100k passengers a year are injured at traffic stops? What? Where did this number come from? Injured how?


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hansvm • today at 3:28 PM

From here [0], extrapolating based on relative rates of traffic stops vs other police-initiated contact. An estimated 32k of those required hospitalization.

[0] https://policeepi.uic.edu/u-s-data-on-police-shootings-and-v...