Study linking police violence and black infants' health is retracted
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- A provocative study that linked police killings of unarmed black people with health problems in black infants has been retracted due to problems with the data used in the analysis.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
