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    Study linking police violence and black infants' health is retracted

    by Amina Khan, Los Angeles Times Dec 16, 2019 3 minutes

    LOS ANGELES - A provocative study that linked police killings of unarmed black people with health problems in black infants has been retracted due to problems with the data used in the analysis.

    A preliminary effort to repeat the analysis with corrected data found no significant link between police violence and infants' chances of being born early or having a lower birth weight, said author Joscha Legewie, a sociologist at Harvard University.

    Legewie said he was alerted

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