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Police Killings in the United States are Undercounted

More than half of police killings are not officially documented on U.S. death certificates, that's according to new research from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. There is currently no system that reliably tracks all law enforcement-related deaths in the U.S., so researchers compared two lists: The CDC's National Vital Statistics System (NVSS), based on state death certificate data and a dataset called “The Counted,” from the London-based Guardian newspaper, which draws from news stories and crowdsourced information. The NVSS documented 44.9% of the total number of deaths and "The Counted" documented 93.1%. In most cases, it appeared police-related deaths were not counted because the coroner or medical examiner failed to mention police involvement on the death certificate. Researchers say the problem of undercounting is especially pronounced in lower-income counties and for deaths due to Tasers Laws requiring that police report all law enforcement-related deaths, along with increased use of media reports could more accurately track these deaths, the authors say Justin Feldman.