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We evaluated the extent of under-reporting of deaths due to police violence in the USA at the state level by race and ethnicity by comparing vital registration data to three non-governmental, open-source databases: Fatal Encounters, Mapping Police Violence, and The Counted.
Dataset name: Global Burden of Disease Study 2019 (GBD 2019) United States Fatal Police Violence by Race and State 1980-2019 Date of release: September 30, 2021 Date of update: February 24, 2023 Summary: Estimates of deaths due to police violence were produced for by age group, sex, state, and
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Using these rates to inform correction factors, we provide adjusted estimates of deaths due to police violence for all states, ages, sexes, and racial and ethnic groups from 1980 to 2019 across the USA.
- The Lancet
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Oct 2, 2021 · Mounting evidence shows that deaths at the hands of the police disproportionately impact people of certain races and ethnicities, pointing to systemic racism in policing. Recent high-profile ...
Mar 3, 2023 · Fatal police violence by race and state in the USA, 1980–2019: a network meta-regression New release: The Lancet: More than half of police killings in USA are unreported and Black Americans are most likely to experience fatal police violence
Sep 30, 2021 · The burden of fatal police violence is an urgent public health crisis in the USA. Mounting evidence shows that deaths at the hands of the police disproportionately impact people of certain races and ethnicities, pointing to systemic racism in policing.
This study examines the presence and extent of under-reporting of police violence in US Government-run vital registration data, offers a method for correcting under-reporting in these datasets, and presents revised estimates of deaths due to police violence in the USA.