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Study Shows Police Killings in U.S. Have Been Widely Undercounted - Voice and Viewpoint

By Lauren Victoria Burke, NNPA Newswire Police killings in the United States have been massively undercounted according to a study by the University of Washington. The study was published on September 27 in the Lancet, peer-reviewed medical journal. Researchers compared data from the National Vital Statistics System (NVSS) federal database alongside data from three groups […]

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