Official mass shooting statistics are unreliable because of police underreporting

Evidence

A mass killing is defined as occurring when there are four or more victims. According to the FBI, the statistics on mass killings are inaccurate because there is underreporting by police departments. For example, Florida does not report homicide data to the FBI. — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 508

Categorization

• QUESTION: Worth chasing: how much does underreporting skew the public mass-shooting numbers that drive counterterrorism policy targeting Muslims?
• XREF: Supports the book’s argument that the terrorism-threat framing is built on shaky data — parallels the racialization argument in the main text.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 508