Black communities stop calling 911 after instances of police brutality, research shows


Alfred Olango was killed by police in the San Diego suburb of El Cajon on Tuesday, after his sister called 911 to try to get some help for a loved one seemingly going through a mental health episode on a busy street. “I called police to help him, not to kill him,” Olango’s sister said in the wake of the killing. 

 Black Americans have been saying for decades that police violence destroys trust in law enforcement and isolates communities from emergency services. Now there’s some empirical evidence to support and explain that observation. Calls to 911 dropped dramatically in black neighborhoods in Milwaukee in the months after a notorious police beating of a black man made local headlines in 2005, .
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