Jake Lawrence on Nostr: There is no official US count of people killed by police. The numbers that get ...
There is no official US count of people killed by police. The numbers that get treated as authoritative come from a newspaper, activist trackers, and a single volunteer. They disagree not because one is wrong but because they define the thing differently.
Five independent counters reconciled against each other, with the federal program that collected data for years and still couldn't publish a total:
https://www.jakelawrence.xyz/research/police-shootingsPublished at
2026-09-19 21:11:06 GMTEvent JSON
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