There is no national tally of justified homicides in the United States. No one collects official statistics on justified homicides, collates them, tracks them and publishes the numbers. Hold on, you might say. What about the FBI and the Uniform Crime Reports (UCR)? The FBI first started publishing some numbers on justified homicides in 1991, though they collected data before that. But the numbers are a mere fraction of all justified homicides. First, UCR reports are voluntary; second, the FBI definition of a justified homicide is not based on rulings by a coroner, prosecutor, judge, jury, or court. ...