Thousands of deaths caused by police have been misclassified since 1980
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That's a weird (and confusing) way to phrase it.
Better phrasing (I checked the linked source article in the Lancet) would be: "researchers found that 55·5% of deaths from police violence between 1980 and 2018 were misclassified"
It would also have been good to provide the numerator and denominator: "The Lancet estimates 17,100 of 30,800 were misclassified."
The headline is good and provides the numerator:
> More than 17,000 deaths caused by police have been misclassified since 1980
(Edit: Added clarification as to why I think this is weird confusing, with the full data from the article and suggestions for how NPR could have written this more clearly.)
How much better? According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_law_enforcement_office..., twenty police officers were killed by assailants in 2020.
The list of people killed by the US police isn't a single article, unfortunately. It's a list for every month of every year. Here's January 2019: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_killings_by_law_enforc...
It's 93 deaths for that month. For the year, it's 632.
It’s shocking how you moved the goalposts from death, to conflict, to running away as justification for death.
Also, if your comparing numbers cops successfully kill around a thousand people per year and attempt to kill significantly more. Talking about number of interactions let alone guns is a meaningless number.