Posted on 04/08/2015 8:06:28 PM PDT by Citizen Zed
How many Americans die in fatal encounters with police officers? In the absence of political will and bureaucratic ability, Americans are rising up to count for themselves.
The best findings so far — 3.15 citizens each day; 22 per week; 96 a month — adding up to an average of 1,150 dead Americans a year, according to data painstakingly compiled by the website fatalencounters.org.
Founder D. Brian Burghart, who launched the not-for-profit Fatal Encounters project in February 2014, stands by those findings as “better than 95 per cent accurate.”
“What we don’t know yet are the trends going back to the year 2000, how that number has shifted over those years and what policy lessons can be drawn,” Burghart told the Star. “But thanks to a great deal of effort on the part of many people, we have complete records for 2013 and 2014. And we are confident in an average annual number of 1,150 people killed.”
Burghart, editor and publisher of the Reno News & Review, began thinking about the project in 2013 out of frustration with the U.S. government’s inability to tabulate officer-involved deaths.
“The fact that our government collects so much information about us — where we live, our economic status, so many unbelievable little details about our lives — but it doesn’t track its own behaviour when it kills, either justifiably or otherwise, is incomprehensible,” he said.
The project works on the principle of crowdsourcing, with visitors to the site filling and submitting an online form. Burghart and his team then fact-check the submissions, matching the reported death against contemporary media reports, augmented by freedom-of-information requests to state and local law enforcement agencies.
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White people are not In Charge...of The Lack of Moral Fiber...Responsibility...and behaviors of Black People??
oh my MY!/s
If we can have congressional hearings on steroids in baseball, why not steroids in cops? Was that guy in North Charleston tested for juice or meds?
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