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. 2015 Dec 8;12(12):e1001915.
doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001915. eCollection 2015 Dec.

Police Killings and Police Deaths Are Public Health Data and Can Be Counted

Nancy Krieger  1 , Jarvis T Chen  1 , Pamela D Waterman  1 , Mathew V Kiang  1 , Justin Feldman  1
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Police Killings and Police Deaths Are Public Health Data and Can Be Counted

Nancy Krieger et al. PLoS Med. .

Abstract

Nancy Krieger and colleagues argue that law-enforcement-related deaths in the United States should be treated as notifiable conditions, which would allow public health departments to report these data in real-time.

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The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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Fig 1. US deaths due to legal intervention: national and city-specific annual 5-year moving average rate (per 100,000) among US black men and white men ages 15–34, 1960–2011.
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