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Abstract
Policing brutality has emerged as a significant component of structural racism, potentially impacting the health of African American young adults. This study utilizes data from the Family and Community Health Study (FACHS) and two crowdsourced datasets to examine the effect of neighborhood police brutality on accelerated epigenetic aging across the life course. Using the OLS regression with clustered-robust standard, the present study found that severe law enforcement may be the major cause of negative health outcomes. Policing inequality only contributes little or no influence on accelerated epigenetic aging, while its influence can be explained by the gender difference. Additionally, the life course perspective indicates that the effects of police brutality are less pronounced among older Black adults.