OXFORD - As recent high-profile killings by police in the United States have prompted calls for more extensive and public reporting on police violence, a new study shows that more than 17,000 deaths from police violence were not reported between 1980 and 2018.
The study, published in "The Lancet," examines the presence and extent of under-reporting of police violence in U.S. government-run vital registration data.
The researchers compared data from the U.S.A. National Vital Statistics System (NVSS) to three non-governmental, open-source databases on police violence.
From there, they extracted and standardized the age, sex, state of death registration, year of death, and race and ethnicity.The study found, across all races and states in the.