More than half of US killings by police go unreported

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55 Percent of Police Killings Are Misclassified as Other Causes of Death

1 October 2021

More than half of police killings aren't labeled as such, according to new research published in The Lancet. The study looks at roughly 40 years of fatal police violence in the U.S. The main finding: Deaths caused by cops are severely underreported in official data. To reach this conclusion, researchers compared statistics from the government's National Vital Statistics System (NVSS) with open-source databases from the nonprofit groups Fatal Encounters, Mapping Police Violence, and The Counted. The NVSS data left off 55.5 percent "of all deaths attributable to police violence" between 1980 and 2018, the researchers found. Overall, "the misclassification of ...

55 Percent of Police Killings Are Misclassified as Other Causes of Death

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Shocking Study Finds Over Half of Those Killed by Police Have Never Been Counted

9 October 2021

Tragically, in America, the domestic security force we are forced to pay for, also known as police, kill more people than any other police force on the planet. The numbers that are released publicly are staggering, however, according to a new study, they are actually far worse. The study, conducted by the University of Washington and published in the British medical journal, The Lancet, found that police killings in America have been undercounted by more than half over the past four decades. Researchers at UW compared the government’s numbers from the National Vital Statistics System (NVSS) with the open source ...

Shocking Study Finds Over Half of Those Killed by Police Have Never Been Counted

The government has been drastically fudging the numbers when it comes to those who are killed by police and it is time we expose them for it.

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Study Says Official Count Of Police Killings Is More Than 50% Lower Than The Actual Number

15 October 2021

In 2019, the FBI claimed to be compiling the first-ever database of police use of force, including killings of citizens by officers. It was, of course, not the first-ever database of police killings. Multiple databases have been created (some abandoned) prior to this self-congratulatory announcement to track killings by police officers. What this database would have, however, is information on use of force, which most private databases didn't track. Whether or not it actually does contain this info is difficult to assess, since the FBI's effort does not compile these reports in any easily-accessible manner, nor does it provide readable ...

Study Says Official Count Of Police Killings Is More Than 50% Lower Than The Actual Number

In 2019, the FBI claimed to be compiling the first-ever database of police use of force, including killings of citizens by officers. It was, of course, not the first-ever database of police killings. Multiple databases have been created (some...

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More than half of US killings by police go unreported: Study
A new study highlights a pattern of racism in policing, authors say.

30 September 2021

A new study on fatal police violence shows more than half of killings by police were left unreported in the last 40 years, and that Black Americans were estimated to be 3.5 times more likely to die from police violence than white Americans. Researchers compared data from the National Vital Statistics System -- a federal tracker of deaths in the United States -- with three independent, non-government, open-source databases: Fatal Encounters, Mapping Police Violence and The Counted. From 1980 to 2019, there were 30,800 deaths from police violence, which is 17,100 more deaths than the NVSS reported, according to the ...

More than half of US killings by police go unreported: Study

Black Americans were estimated to be 3.5 times more likely to die from police violence than white Americans.

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