More than half of US police killings are mislabelled or not reported, study finds

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 in the US 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.