Celislami, Elda; Kastoryano, Stephen; Mastrobuoni, Giovanni - 2023
difficulty. This paper reveals how police departments exploit specific laws surrounding death investigations to facilitate the … underreporting of police killings. Our results show that US counties in which law enforcement can certify the cause of death …, including counties which appoint the sheriff as the lead death investigator, display 46% more underreported police killings than …