Underreporting Those Deaths by Legal Interventions
6 min readJun 5, 2020
By Nana Dadzie Ghansah
In spite of the existence of federal databases to record homicides, it has been known for decades that while the reporting of civilian-on-civilian ones is close to 99% accurate, the police killings of civilians are grossly underreported.
A study by Sherman in 1979 found killings of civilians by law-enforcement officers were…