Opinion: Thousands of missed police killings prove we must address systemic bias in forensic science
killings by U.S. police by more than half. During that time, these officials missed or covered up more than 17,000 police killings between 1980 and 2018.
One systemic feature that appears to produce error, however, is that medical examiners long have been close allies of police and prosecutors — frequently partisans, not neutrals. Many allow the police, but not others, to observe autopsies and to influence critical steps in death investigation. They often talk freely to prosecutors, but only grudgingly — if at all — to defense lawyers.
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