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Comrade Grumpy

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9. I actually follow police killings as part of my job.

Reply to Recursion (Original post)

Thu Jan 1, 2015, 02:07 PM

Jan 2015

I'm not keeping a running count, but it seems like two or three every day. That would put the annual total somewhere between 700 and 1000, something like that.

The number each year seems to be slowly increasing.

I think there were something like 15 million crimes reported to the FBI in the last UCR, so the number of interactions that result in a death is a tiny fraction of all interactions.

And lots of black guys get killed by cops. I mean they would appear to make up a disproportionate number of the people killed by police.

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Things I would like to know about police violence in the US [View all] Recursion Dec 2014 OP

Amazingly enough, those figures are not reported to a central place, and so they can only djean111 Dec 2014 #1

that information would be readily available in any nation... Adam051188 Dec 2014 #2

Why? Igel Jan 2015 #7

accesibility of information is absolutely a top priority in any democratic organization. Adam051188 Jan 2015 #11

Not even kill, how many people have they kicked or bone breaking punched in the face? countless. Sunlei Dec 2014 #3

To me that is an extremely important point etherealtruth Dec 2014 #5

Dec 12th Congress passed the Death In Custody Reporting Act which will require the gathering of Bluenorthwest Dec 2014 #4

The Death in Custody Reporting Act was originally passed in 2000, Downwinder Dec 2014 #6

Yep, and it expired in 2006 prior to the first data being complied, and it sat for 7 years until Bluenorthwest Jan 2015 #10

Yes. The info would be good. Igel Jan 2015 #8

I actually follow police killings as part of my job. Comrade Grumpy Jan 2015 #9