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Police killings of civilians in the US have been undercounted by more than half in official statistics

  • Written by Moshen Naghavi, Professor of Health Metric Science at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington
imageThe names of the dead.Jason Armond / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

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The number of people killed by police officers in the U.S. has been massively underreported in official statistics over the past four decades, with an additional 17,000 deaths over that period,...

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