Report: Deaths in custody are a crisis but federal data is a black hole : NPR

"Citing data from the U.S. Government Accountability Office, the report says the federal government likely undercounted deaths in custody in 2021 alone by nearly 1,000 compared with other public data sources.

This information black hole is despite a federal law from 2014, the Death in Custody Reporting Act, that exists to compel law enforcement agencies' transparency on this issue. And under DCRA, the Justice Department is supposed to collect state and local data on these deaths."

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