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Underreporting of Justifiable Homicides Committed by Police Officers in the United States, 1976–1998

Colin Loftin, PhD, Brian Wiersema, David McDowall, PhD and Adam Dobrin, PhD

Colin Loftin and David McDowall are with the Violence Research Group, School of Criminal Justice, University at Albany, State University of New York. Brian Wiersema is with the Violence Research Group, Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Maryland, College Park. Adam Dobrin is with the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton.



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  		FIGURE 1—— Annual numbers of justifiable homicides committed by police officers: United States, 1976–1998.

Note. SHR = supplementary homicide report; NVSS = National Vital Statistics System.

 


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  		FIGURE 2—— Justifiable homicides committed by police officers, by state: United States, 1976–1998.

 




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