More than half of US killings by police go unreported: Study

[Rotadom]

More than half of US killings by police go unreported: Study

https://abcnews.go.com/US/half-us-killings-police-unreported-study/story?id=80303407

A new study on fatal police violence shows more than half of killings by police were left unreported in the last 40 years, and that Black Americans were estimated to be 3.5 times more likely to die from police violence than white Americans.

From 1980 to 2019, there were 30,800 deaths from police violence, which is 17,100 more deaths than the NVSS reported, according to the study by researchers from the University of Washington and published in the Lancet.

The study found that the NVSS underreported 55.5% of these deaths overall, but that percentage rose to 59.1% when reporting deaths among Black Americans.

The rate of police killings for non-Hispanic Black victims was about 3.5 times higher than that of non-Hispanic white people, and Hispanics were 1.8 times more likely to be killed by police violence than non-Hispanic white people.

 

[Philthy_Phil]

I watch a lot of videos on youtube of cops shooting people and Arizona seems to be a hot spot.

 

[pecksniff]

Wait, how do they know about these unreported police killings?

 

[DroolinFool]

I watch a lot of videos on youtube of cops shooting people and Arizona seems to be a hot spot.

Donutoperator is the shiznat.

 

[Philthy_Phil]

Donutoperator is the shiznat.

He's okay. A little too much of a trumptard for my liking. I prefer the raw unedited videos without some dipshit's commentary.

 

[Champakian]

It's pretty hard to cover up a shooting of any sort since they tend to leave a corpse.

 

[AlterErgo]

Wait, how do they know about these unreported police killings?

 

[pecksniff]

It's pretty hard to cover up a shooting of any sort since they tend to leave a corpse.

But how do they know whether the police did it? I'm sure the necessary ballistics tests would not be done in every case.

 

[LukSkyFokker]

It's pretty hard to cover up a shooting of any sort since they tend to leave a corpse.

Kinda like how it's hard to count illegals when they have no papers yet somehow we manage to put a number to that.