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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."

Homicides by Police: Comparing Counts From the National Violent Death Reporting System, Vital Statistics, and Supplementary Homicide Reports

American Journal of Public Health

Barber, Catherine / Azrael, Deborah / Cohen, Amy / Miller, Matthew / Thymes, Deonza / Wang, David Enze / Hemenway, David

Vol. 106 Issue 5, pp. 922–927, 2016

10.2105/AJPH.2016.303074

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