Police violence is not just a problem of individual bad officers but rather the conditions that allow officers to act in ways that have led to the killings of black Americans, says Osagie K. Obasogie, a professor of bioethics at the University of California, Berkeley. Obasogie called police killings “a pandemic” and said they should be considered a public health crisis.
“One of the perspectives that public health can offer is understanding what set of conditions allows police violence to…
