Federal researchers detailed huge racial disparities in deadly police violence, but crucial data is still missing.
who were killed while in police custody or who died inside local jails due to abuse, medical neglect and other forms of violence. Multiple states have resisted gathering and sharing data on deaths-in-custody with the federal government despite laws passed by Congress,Feldman said the recording of a “legal intervention death” typically happens locally, where coroners and public health officials may be under political pressure from police they work with on a regular basis.
In many cases, deaths-in-custody occur during or after an arrest, when people are supposed to be considered innocent until proven guilty. The system for classifying deaths is arbitrary, Feldman said, and whether a death is recorded as the result of “legal intervention” often depends on the practices and beliefs of individual examiners who may come under political pressure.
“If it’s a death in custody, and the medical examiner calls it ‘accidental,’ which is pretty common, it’s not going into the data set,” Feldman said. “What I’m interested in is deaths that come after either use of force, like Tasers, beatings, restraints or medical neglect. The data there is a complete mess in every dataset that exists.”is widely read among people with lower incomes and among young people who are mired in debt.
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