Hello and welcome to Series Inquiries Only. This is episode 313. I'm Thomas. That's Dr.

Lindsey Osterman, how you doing? Oh, I'm wonderful. How are you? I'm doing fine myself.

On one hand, feeling like we were very vindicated in our past episodes on police violence, but also

a super depressing vindication. But either way, I mean, if you went back, if you listened

to at the time, our series on police killings, police violence, I think you really should.

Police bias too, as well as all those things. Lindsey did a fantastic job of breaking down

some of the science involved in that. And throughout that whole time, I believe I said

multiple times that like, also keep in mind, no matter when, what we're talking about when

it comes to police violence, that so much of the stats that we can get access to or that

anyone can is running studies and stuff, so much of that is police reported often. And,

yeah, and so much of even the news reporting will be like a reporter, talk to the police

who told them something. And it's like, we have should have learned, unless you're somebody

coming from a totally different political perspective, we should have learned by now

that that is just not reliable. And the big example was George Floyd, you know, that

would have just been, oh, medical, medical related death, uh, well, and plenty of history

of drug use on a heart condition. Yeah, I had a heart attack, you know, that was how

that would have been coded reported. And maybe still was after we go through this article

in the study. But anyway, this, you may have seen in the New York Times what we're going

to talk about today, which is at least that's where I saw it, a study, new study says that

more than half of police killings are mislabeled. And the number of police killings is basically

double what you would have thought it was based on how it's been reported, which, yeah,

I mean, that's kind of what we were saying. And whenever there's a study involved in

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