Ibragimov U, Beane S, Friedman SR, et al. - Researchers assessed black residents of US metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs) to determine the correlations between police killings and rates of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in this patient population. In this cross-sectional ecological analysis, they examined how the number of black people killed by police in 2015 was associated with rates of primary and secondary syphilis, gonorrhea, and chlamydia per 100,000 black residents of all ages in 2016 in 75 large MSAs. In multivariable models, there was a positive and significant correlation of police killings with syphilis and gonorrhea rates among black residents. They observed higher syphilis rates by 7.5% and gonorrhea rates by 4.0% in 2016 in correlation with each additional police killing in 2015.