"deemed justifiable" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It means something that is considered reasonable or acceptable. Example: The decision to cut funding for the program was deemed justifiable by the board of directors due to budget constraints.
When white shooters kill black victims, 34% of the resulting homicides are deemed justifiable, but when black shooters kill white victims, only 3% of the deaths are deemed justified in court - proving that people of color are victims on both sides of the gun.
For instance, homicides caused by negligence or those deemed justifiable by prosecutors are not counted.
The FBI keeps track of what are deemed "justifiable homicides" by police officers.
Officials have reclassified the death — it is no longer deemed "justifiable" — and police are pressing federal prosecutors to review the case.
The deaths referred to as "law enforcement homicides" in the BJS report and what the FBI calls "justifiable homicides by law enforcement" are roughly equivalent, Planty and a second senior BJS official told the Guardian, in part because nearly all homicides by police, if adjudicated at all, are deemed "justifiable", meaning not criminal.
Take a look: In 2012, there were 8,855 criminal gun homicides in the FBI's homicide database, but only 258 gun killings by private citizens that were deemed justifiable, which the FBI defines as "the killing of a felon, during the commission of a felony, by a private citizen".
That number is incomplete and likely an undercount, as only a fraction of local police jurisdictions even report such deaths – and those reported are the ones deemed somehow "justifiable".
A new report by The Marshall Project found that white killings of black men are often deemed as "justifiable homicides". The 17-year-old dreamt of becoming a pilot.
Additional file 1: Criteria for comments to be deemed 'clinically justifiable'.
The main criteria for comments to be deemed 'clinically justifiable' were agreed between the authors and are shown in Additional file 1.
This file provides details of the types of comments made by healthcare staff regarding early/late/missing voiding times that were or were not deemed 'clinically justifiable' by the research team.
