Article 5Q7SH Police Killings Undercounted by More Than Half, Study Says

Police Killings Undercounted by More Than Half, Study Says

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Terrell Jermaine Starr
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A new study found that not only are police killings undercounted by more than half, but Black men's killings are mislabeled at higher rates than any other race. From 1980 to 2019, more than 55 percent of the 31,000 killings by cops were assigned other causes in federal death data.

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