"On the one hand, that is a reasonable criticism. While journalists and academics have been tracking police deaths and use of force, this is a piecemeal effort that depends on the ability of individual journalists and researchers to gather and confirm information. While the National-Use-of-Force Data Collection launched in 2019, most police departments decline to provide data. As such, we do not know the exact number of police caused deaths nor the exact percentage that have been mislabeled."
"That said, the authors of the study are using the best available data from the National Vital Statistics System, Fatal Encounters, Mapping Police Violence, and the Guardian's The Counted. This data, while incomplete, does provide a foundation for a reasonable inductive generalization. Naturally, we need to keep in mind the usual concerns about sample size and the possibility of a biased sample."
More than half of killings by police have been mislabeled over the past 40 years. Black men are killed and their deaths mislabeled at disproportionately high rates. The federal government lacks a comprehensive system of tracking police-caused deaths and use of force, preventing precise counts. Journalists and academics collect data piecemeal, and the National Use of Force Data Collection launched in 2019 faces widespread nonparticipation from police departments. Researchers rely on sources such as the National Vital Statistics System, Fatal Encounters, Mapping Police Violence, and the Guardian's The Counted to form reasonable inductive generalizations despite potential sample bias and missing data.
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