Some other thoughts I have about the situation with the Ferguson/St. Louis Police and recent shootings: You can ague that police in England/Wales who would seek to use tasers rather than lethal force are putting themselves in more danger, but no Cops in England/Wales were killed at all last year, while they killed no one. Not a single one. In America, cops kill around 400 people a year. And if you think race doesnt play a role, youre turning a blind eye to systematic racism thats existed for years in this country. According to stats compiled by the U.S. Department of Justice, an unarmed African American died at the hands of an armed White police officer at the rate of nearly two per week from 2005 to 2012. Over that 8-year-period, 400 police killings were reported per year. White officers killed a Black person, on average, 96 times per year. Of those, 18 percent of the African Americans killed were under the age of 21, compared to 8.7 percent of Whites. As bad as those figures are, they grossly understate the problem. The FBI statistics are based on the voluntary reporting of local law enforcement jurisdictions. Currently, approximately 750 of 17,000 law enforcement agencies regularly report their figures to the FBI. That means if the ratio holds true for all 17,000 agencies, the annual 96 Black deaths at the hands of White cops could be as high 2,170 a year or almost 42 (41.73) per week – nearly six per day (5.94). Using the most conservative data, Blacks are almost twice as likely to be killed by police as cops are likely to be murdered in the line of duty.
Posted on: Mon, 25 Aug 2014 02:42:47 +0000
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