Amidst the ongoing national conversation around race, inequality, violence, and policing, social scientists are struggling with incomplete federal and state data. This lack of comprehensive data is a key barrier to those researching police violence, racial disparities in police-caused deaths, and the overall impact on public health.
Glenn Ellis, Harvard Medical School 2019 bioethics fellow and visiting scholar at Tuskegee University’s National Center for Bioethics in Research and Health Care is quoted, “If you’re not tracking the data, it’s impossible to understand the magnitude and know where to direct resources.”