Sunday, November 30, 2014

A Look at the Number of Citizens Killed by Police-it’s a Long Way From FBI Data

There is a facebook page that documents instances of citizens killed by police.
The incidents are verified by using media reports,and there is a corresponding report to every incident counted.
Their count for 2014 is 1,009 people killed by police-in the USA.
https://www.facebook.com/KilledByPolice
According to the FBI’s newest Uniform Crime Report (UCR), released this week, 461 people were killed by police in “justifiable homicides” in 2013. This number has gotten some media attention, both because it’s considered by some to be the “best authoritative data available” and because it represents an 8 percent jump in these homicides from 2012.

Read the rest @ http://starvinlarry.com/2014/11/30/a-look-at-the-number-of-citizens-killed-by-police-its-a-long-way-from-fbi-data/


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