Quantifying underreporting of law-enforcement-related deaths in United States vital statistics and news-media-based data sources: A capture-recapture analysis.

Prior research suggests that United States governmental sources documenting the number of law-enforcement-related deaths (i.e., fatalities due to injuries inflicted by law enforcement officers) undercount these incidents. The National Vital Statistics System (NVSS), administered by the federal gover...

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Main Authors: Justin M Feldman, Sofia Gruskin, Brent A Coull, Nancy Krieger
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-10-01
Series:PLoS Medicine
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5634537?pdf=render