The Howard Center for Investigative Journalism spent months pouring through the department’s data and found other gaps as well. The Howard Center also identified 24 deaths – including Clay’s recent one – that were not counted in the department’s data. Police data not standardizedExperts interviewed by the Howard Center said police data can only reveal or explain so much. The Howard Center cross-matched these 24 in-custody deaths with the Mapping Police Violence dataset and found seven overlapping cases. To determine which officer-involved shootings were deemed within policy, the Howard Center cross-matched OIS and UOF data.