title: Police Killings and Police Deaths Are Public Health Data and Can Be Counted.
abstract: Nancy Krieger and colleagues argue that law-enforcement-related deaths in the United States should be treated as notifiable conditions, which would allow public health departments to report these data in real-time.
authors.affiliation: Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America.
authors.forename: Nancy
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Krieger
authors.affiliation: Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America.
authors.forename: Jarvis T
authors.initials: JT
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.affiliation: Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America.
authors.forename: Pamela D
authors.initials: PD
authors.lastname: Waterman
authors.affiliation: Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America.
authors.forename: Mathew V
authors.initials: MV
authors.lastname: Kiang
authors.affiliation: Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America.
authors.forename: Justin
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Feldman
mesh_terms: D006708:Homicide / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D035846:Law Enforcement; D016495:Police / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011634:Public Health / Q000379:methods* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D014481:United States