Jake Lawrence on Nostr: There is no reliable federal count of people killed by US police. The figures most ...
There is no reliable federal count of people killed by US police. The figures most journalists and researchers reach for come from a newspaper, an activist-run database, and a single volunteer. All three disagree with each other, and none of them agree with the government's own tally, which misses most of the cases. Six essays, three live instruments, and a hashed open-data release reconciling five independent counters:
https://www.jakelawrence.xyz/essays/police-shootingsPublished at
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