However, for the past 25 years, research in this area has been, in the best case, massively underfunded (Roth et al., 1993) and in the worst case, actively blocked by federal legislation (Kassirer, 1995;Frankel, 2015;Bertrand, 2015).
in the future, the database will also include full within-document coreference annotation, with all mentions of a shooter/victim being flagged as such, and will incorporate visual data, so that within-article images are tagged with relevant information which may not be communicated by the text alone (e.g.