Harvard Study: More Than Half of Police Killings Not Officially Documented on U.S. Death Certificates

Boston, MA –(ENEWSPF)—October 16, 2017

By: Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Official death certificates in the U.S. failed to count more than half of the people killed by police in 2015—and the problem of undercounting is especially pronounced in lower-income counties and for deaths that are due to Tasers, according to a new study from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

In contrast, a database from the London-based Guardian newspaper…