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Agency reports ran dry, so I turned to digitized local newspapers. Nineteen papers later, the long-run panel has nearly doubled, and the headline looks different.

The Lancet estimated that police violence deaths rose 38% from the 1980s to the 2010s. Here's why I doubted it, and what fifty years of agency-level data on fatal police shootings show.

Mapping Police Violence reports a 5% decline in police killings for 2025.

I try to make sense of a handful of studies seemingly at odds with each other