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No Sharp Rise Seen in Police Killings, Though Increased Focus May Suggest Otherwise
New York Times ^ | April 30, 2015 | MICHAEL WINES and SARAH COHEN

Posted on 04/30/2015 11:40:23 AM PDT by reaganaut1

The use of police force — against minorities and whites alike — is so poorly monitored that there is no precise accounting of how many citizens are killed by officers, much less their ethnicity or other crucial details.

What official data exists suggests that the number of killings by police officers has crept upward only slowly, if at all, in recent years. Since 2009, one regular if incomplete measure, the F.B.I.’s account of justifiable homicides by police officers, ranged between 397 and 426 deaths annually before jumping to 461 in 2013, the latest reporting year.

Federal experts have long acknowledged that that estimate is too low, and a handful of more recent, unofficial reports — online databases compiled and fact-checked by volunteers — place the toll much higher, at about 1,100 deaths a year, or three a day. Yet they do not suggest that the pace of police killings or the racial composition of victims as a group has changed significantly in the last two years or so.

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Fatal Encounters, maintained by D. Brian Burghart, the publisher of The Reno News and Review, may be the most meticulous aggregator of reports of killings by police. The data, covering killings from 2013 to the present, reinforces federal statistics in one broad respect: In police homicides in which the victim’s race is identified, African-Americans account for about three in 10 deaths, and whites roughly half.

“Blacks are three times as likely to be killed by cops as are whites, on a per-capita basis,” said Dr. Moskos of John Jay. But part of that is because of crime in predominantly black neighborhoods.

“Blacks are four or five times as likely to be victims of homicides, and they are five times as likely to feloniously kill a cop,” he said.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: homicide; police; policebrutality
If you tell blacks that the police are the enemy, more will fight the police and be killed. Rabble rousers don't care about actually saving lives.
1 posted on 04/30/2015 11:40:23 AM PDT by reaganaut1
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To: reaganaut1

Obama has encourage a war on cops by Blacks. It is any surprise that there are casualties.


2 posted on 04/30/2015 11:46:59 AM PDT by RoosterRedux (WSC: The truth is incontrovertible; malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end...)
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To: RoosterRedux
Sheesh.

S/B Is it any surprise there are casualties?

3 posted on 04/30/2015 11:47:43 AM PDT by RoosterRedux (WSC: The truth is incontrovertible; malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end...)
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To: reaganaut1

The MSM must’ve gotten the message to diffuse the whole ‘hands up dont shoot’ fad. I wonder why the sudden change in nuance.


4 posted on 04/30/2015 11:49:06 AM PDT by skeeter
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To: RoosterRedux

Along with the War on Whitey. All part of the fundamental transformation.


5 posted on 04/30/2015 12:04:05 PM PDT by Eagles6 (Valley Forge Redux. If not now, when? If not here, where? If not us then who?)
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To: reaganaut1

One of Obama’s buddies let it slip the other night on CNN. They want a Federal Anti-Racial Profiling Law. Which in reality means they want it to be illegal to arrest Black people I guess?


6 posted on 04/30/2015 12:09:00 PM PDT by The Toll
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To: reaganaut1

Though the killing of civilians makes the news, what’s far more problematic is the injuries that civilians sustain. This isn’t just a minority and low SES problem anymore, police have become more aggressive.


7 posted on 04/30/2015 12:17:10 PM PDT by Katya (Homo Nosce Te Ipsum)
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To: reaganaut1

The “increased focus” is all part of the left’s political agenda to keep blacks agitated and to cause general chaos.


8 posted on 04/30/2015 12:18:11 PM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: RoosterRedux

What do you expect for the paper that argued against court martial against Bergdahl because it would hurt his future job chances.


9 posted on 04/30/2015 12:44:14 PM PDT by dp0622 (Franky Five Angels: "Look, let's get 'em all -- let's get 'em all now, while we got the muscle.")
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