08-15-2016, 09:56 AM
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Too old to care
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Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: On the sofa, watching TV or doing my jigsaws.
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people shot dead
by police in 2015
1. Cops killed nearly twice as many whites as blacks in 2015
Which shows it's actually 3-4 times as likely to be a black man killed by a policeman.
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At the same time the number of police officers has increased in the US. There are a quarter of a million more police officers working today than there were three decades ago.
So when you consider the number of officers killed per 100,000, there has been a dramatic decrease. The annual per capita number of officers killed has dropped from 24 per 100,000 in the 10 years to 1980 to 7.3 per 100,000 in the 10 years to 2013 (the last year for which there is good data).
This chimes with a bigger trend, which is a steady reduction in crime, including homicides.
Killed by police
Official data on the number of people killed by the police turns out to be remarkably unreliable.
"We can't have an informed discussion, because we don't have data," FBI Director James Comey said in the House of Representatives in October.
"People have data about who went to a movie last weekend, or how many books were sold, or how many cases of the flu walked into an emergency room. And I cannot tell you how many people were shot by police in the United States last month, last year, or anything about the demographics. And that's a very bad place to be."
He had previously said it was "unacceptable" that the leading sources of this information were newspapers, the Washington Post and the Guardian.
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And it will only get worse.
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