A Better Surveillance System for Tracking Police Homicides

Boston, MA –(ENEWSPF)–March 17, 2016.  Official counts of homicides by police seriously undercount incidents, according to a study from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, but a relatively new national data system, currently in use in 32 states, could be a crucial tool for gathering more comprehensive information, say the researchers.

The study, which was published online March 17, 2016 in the American Journal of Public Health, found that the U.S. Centers for Disease…