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tblue37

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21. Right, the number is *not* tracked, so the total provided by those rare entities that do try to

Reply to drray23 (Reply #9)

Sun Sep 28, 2014, 04:21 PM

Sep 2014

come up with a total is probably significantly lower than the actual total, just as actual rape numbers are almost certainly significantly higher than the number of rapes that get reported.

The total of cop killings that I keep seeing is about 400 per year. Figure that number is very much lower than the true number, for various well-known reasons. I am guessing that the real number is probably over 1000, and quite possibly over 1000 by quite a lot.

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Twenty-Three People Killed by American Police in the Span of One Week [View all] noiretextatique Sep 2014 OP

so in a year drray23 Sep 2014 #1

yep noiretextatique Sep 2014 #2

In ONE week, not all weeks seveneyes Sep 2014 #8

they are on a roll drray23 Sep 2014 #9

A better number would be those who did not need to be stopped seveneyes Sep 2014 #10

*None* of those cases were valid. ncjustice80 Sep 2014 #19

Right, the number is *not* tracked, so the total provided by those rare entities that do try to tblue37 Sep 2014 #21

the estimate from the article is @1450 per year noiretextatique Sep 2014 #12

Please feel free..... daleanime Sep 2014 #26

An ex future leader of the free world seveneyes Sep 2014 #29

Americans are afraid of ISIS? Cali_Democrat Sep 2014 #3

so true noiretextatique Sep 2014 #4

This. bigwillq Sep 2014 #5

Yes! This is quite true! n/t RKP5637 Sep 2014 #6

+1 nt Live and Learn Sep 2014 #7

BIN-go . . . hatrack Sep 2014 #13

we are fighting our enemy in all the wrong places whereisjustice Sep 2014 #14

I think McCain & Graham are calling for airstrikes. CaptainTruth Sep 2014 #16

Yeap uponit7771 Sep 2014 #17

Right. But the ugly truth is that for African-Americans especially, and for other minorities to a tblue37 Sep 2014 #22

kick noiretextatique Sep 2014 #11

just some patriotic folks shooting some folks, no biggie, need to move forward, blah, blah, blah whereisjustice Sep 2014 #15

There was one here in Wasilla a couple weeks ago, just outside this time window. Blue_In_AK Sep 2014 #18

i see the police are always exonerated noiretextatique Sep 2014 #20

And the millions of dollars in settlements need to start coming out of the tblue37 Sep 2014 #23

+10000 noiretextatique Sep 2014 #25

I believe it may be libodem Sep 2014 #24

American LE Is Out Of Control cantbeserious Sep 2014 #27

several things need to be done to reverse this drray23 Sep 2014 #28

Most of us would be fired if we made our company lose millions due to negligence on the job noiretextatique Sep 2014 #30

kick woo me with science Sep 2014 #31