Study: Police kill more people in this state than any other many deaths go unreported

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(10-04-2021, 07:09 PM)michaelsean Wrote: When they say underreport what do they mean?  Is there perhaps a specific federal department you report it to?  Obviously the information is somewhere or this study wouldn’t know about it. Also I fully admit it could have been mentioned and I missed it.

From the link to the study:

Quote: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.


[color=var(--theme-headings,#00539e)]Methods[/color]
We compared data from the USA National Vital Statistics System (NVSS) to three non-governmental, open-source databases on police violence: Fatal Encounters, Mapping Police Violence, and The Counted. We extracted and standardised the age, sex, US state of death registration, year of death, and race and ethnicity (non-Hispanic White, non-Hispanic Black, non-Hispanic of other races, and Hispanic of any race) of each decedent for all data sources and used a network meta-regression to quantify the rate of under-reporting within the NVSS. 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.

When they say "under reported" they mean exactly that.  The deaths are not reported here which leads to an undercount of those involved in police related deaths.