teacher_ofenglish

Thanks - one more:

Apparently the CDC also collects this information, as part of their collection of injury data - specifically, they have a separate database of violent death reports . (fatal injury by cop is its own category in their data.) Yes, only 16 states participate at this time. Don't know why, but they do have a nifty online query tool: http://www.cdc.gov/injury/wisqars/facts.html

Does the cdc's data do better than the bjs data?

I was talking with a friend about your project and she pointed out that this database (http://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/press/ard0309stpr.cfm) does collect this information. What problems do you see with this database that support your statement that we aren't collecting this data?