Finds significant under-reporting of “legal intervention homicides” in several national systems, but finds from available data that “the annual rate of police homicide (0.24/100‚000) varied 5-fold by state and 8-fold by race/ethnicity."
“This finding comports with prior LIH [“Legal Intervention Homicide” by police] research that finds that black Americans are not only disproportionately likely to be killed by law enforcement but are disproportionately unlikely to present an objective threat of deadly force”