News: 965 people killed by police in 2015

Adonis

http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/inv...t-nearly-1000/

Even though the lowest number of police were killed in US history.

rihannafan

Even though, or therefore?

Dylobs

St. Charles

Disgusting

Leppie

Disgusting

Jet

Disgusting

Dessy Fenix

Truly disgusting. Criminals or not, a thousand lives is a lot.

jonasha

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Meanwhile, The Post found that the great majority of people who died at the hands of the police fit at least one of three categories: they were wielding weapons, they were suicidal or mentally troubled, or they ran when officers told them to halt.

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In a year-long study, The Washington Post found that the kind of incidents that have ignited protests in many U.S. communities — most often, white police officers killing unarmed black men — represent less than 4 percent of fatal police shootings.

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In three-quarters of the fatal shootings, POLICE WERE UNDER ATTACK or defending someone who was.

that G.U.Y.

But theres a war on police!!!11!

PoisonPill

I know you're trying to get that hit thread, but why don't you try using actual facts. A murder is when someone has been charged, tried and convicted of a criminal charge of murder. 965 police involved deaths - the majority of which involved people who were armed and attacking police. Police shootings of unarmed black men is tragic but it only was 4%.

Adonis

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Originally posted by PoisonPill

I know you're trying to get that hit thread, but why don't you try using actual facts. A murder is when someone has been charged, tried and convicted of a criminal charge of murder. 965 police involved deaths - the majority of which involved people who were armed and attacking police. Police shootings of unarmed black men is tragic but it only was 4%.

Fixed the title. I used killed instead. I was debating the title when I originally created the post. So...

LCTV

They should've halted & dropped their weapons.

Zoraluv

I love when police can seemingly handle crazy ppl waving guns and are able to get them down to the ground just fine but wowie it seems some just get a wild hair up their ass and just want to get that hidden aggression out. js

Speezy

as of Dec 24

not them thinking more will come within the next few days

wesleywalrus

I don't know why the US policemen never use tasers. You see UK police handle rough situations so perfectly with plastic shields and the US can't do ****.

Mariah4life

yeah and like 90% of those were killed to protect other people or themselves because the suspect had guns.
Not trying to defend them but let's be realistic. not every police officer is bad.

Icarus

People acting as if all of the killings would have been unjustified

Dessy Fenix

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Originally posted by wesleywalrus

I don't know why the US policemen never use tasers. You see UK police handle rough situations so perfectly with plastic shields and the US can't do ****.

Policemen are trained to shoot to kill. Tasers are used sometimes but not against lethal threats.

Adonis

55 police officers are repeat shooters.

Chucko

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Race remains the most volatile flash point in any accounting of police shootings. Although black men make up only 6 percent of the U.S. population, they account for 40 percent of the unarmed men shot to death by police this year

Black men are 6% of the US population but about 12% of the male population. This is significant since they are playing with words here. 6% of the US population but then they shift to considering black men as a percentage of only men be shot by police. Most people killed by police are men, race isn't a factor at this point statistically speaking.

So this article is trying to say black men are killed at twice the rate of other races when it's actually ~3.5% more.

Another key figure they conveniently left out is that the 12% of the male population, being black, are committing nearly as many murders as 88% of the other races according to the FBI.

FBI - homicide data murder race and sex of vicitm by race and sex of offender _2014

I stopped reading the article after that paragraph because they are clearly out of their minds spinning their Liberal agenda.

Are there bad cops? Yes, should they be arrested when they break the law? Yes. Should we paint all cops as murders? No. We might as well paint all teachers as sex offenders due to bad teachers out there taking advantage of kids.