For the first time ever, the CDC’s weekly Morbidity and Mortality report includes police killings in their report, according to Justin Michael Feldman, Visiting Scientist at the Harvard FXB Center for Health and Human Rights. Feldman says that “even though this a good start, there is no good data on police killings, period!”

He discusses the issues and suggests improvements in reporting the deaths.

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