ABSTRACT
Policing has become a global health crisis. Though global pandemics and police-involved deaths appear to be separate problems, they become interconnected when the government transforms a health crisis into a criminal justice problem; doing so exposes deep racial inequities that cannot be resolved under the current police system. Particularly, the COVID-19 pandemic has revealed enduring health disparities among communities already experiencing the negative effects of aggressive police tactics. Further, protests against police violence and police responses to those protests both help further spread the virus.
