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More than 17,000 deaths caused by police have been misclassified since 1980

After the 2014 shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., news organizations started to keep their own tallies of deaths, which turned out to be higher than the government's numbers. (LightRocket via Getty Images)
After the 2014 shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., news organizations started to keep their own tallies of deaths, which turned out to be higher than the government's numbers. (LightRocket via Getty Images)

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