Review of 40 years of data shows many fatal police encounters are misclassified, most often when the victim is Black or Hispanic
More than half of all police-involved killings go unreported with the majority of victims being Black, according to a new study published in the Lancet, a peer reviewed journal.
Research at the University of Washington School of Medicine’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation found that in the US between 1980 and 2018, more than 55% of deaths, over 17,000 in total, from police violence were either misclassified or went unreported.
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