Police Killings Underreported

A study from Harvard University finds that more than half of deaths due to "legal intervention" in 2015 were misclassified.

This suggests that the statistics regarding the number of American citizens killed by police have been drastically underestimated — in 2015, and likely in other years if the problem proves as systemic as it appears from the study.

Unsurprisingly, the misclassification mistakes appeared disproportionately in low-income areas. The vast majority of police killings occur in neighborhoods with average household incomes under $100,000.

Update (December 7):  A rare conviction in the case of Walter Scott who was killed by former police officer Michael Slager.

Update (December 15):  Vice News reports that police in the 50 largest U.S. cities shoot citizens twice as much as previous estimates.

[L]ocal departments shot at least 3,631 people from 2010 through 2016. ... On more than 700 other occasions, police fired at citizens and missed.