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altermundial372 karma

  1. How exactly do you define a police killing? For example, would you count a suspect being accidentally killed in a car chase?

  2. Have you seen any interest from government agencies like the Bureau of Justice Statistics in either collaborating with you or learning from your methodology?

  3. What has the biggest challenge been in doing research for The Counted?

altermundial199 karma

Thanks for your response! I'm a PhD student doing my dissertation on police violence, and your work will probably end up being very helpful to me.

altermundial31 karma

Thanks, I will consider that. I'm still in the early stages, but hope to get my first publication out in the next couple of months.

altermundial1 karma

If only that were true! But believe it or not, there are many other ways to look at this issue. I'll be researching not just deaths in 2015, but historical trends, policies, non-fatal injuries, and the shortcomings of existing data collection systems.