Flutterby™! : Two Years Collecting Data

What I've Learned from Two Years Collecting Data on Police Killings:

The biggest thing I've taken away from this project is something I'll never be able to prove, but I'm convinced to my core: The lack of such a database is intentional. No government—not the federal government, and not the thousands of municipalities that give their police forces license to use deadly force—wants you to know how many people it kills and why.

That's certainly consistent with the Bureau of Justice Statistics slicing data every which way but killings by police officers...