see url:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/investigations/police-shootings-database/
see full report and graphs...Either the constitutional law enforcement
system in the US is racist...or the blacks and ethnic minorities have
criminality in their genes...đ
What do you folks think? Does the use of guns make all citizens of the
United States not only feel safer, but actually safer, in that it
actually deters the use or carrying of weapons instead of encouraging
it; or should a radical change in law enforcement take place, where the
racist element and training in the police force is removed, along with
the shoot first mentality and work out why it was legal afterwards, and
introduce more non-lethal forms of strategies and straightforward
approaches to dealing with all citizens with equal hands...so that there
is truly protect and serving of the citizens going on...And should those
police mafias called unions have their teeth removed and take on a
purely consultative and advisory role, and the oversight of police
forces be taken away from the police and vested in the ordinary
citizenry via properly constituted and representative, apolitical
oversight boards...and should law enforcement officers disciplinary
records be public knowledge and be revealed in cases where it shows a
consistent pattern in using guns and shooting people?
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In 2015, The Washington Post began to log every fatal shooting by an
on-duty police officer in the United States. In that time there have
been more than 5,000 such shootings recorded by The Post.
After Michael Brown, an unarmed Black man, was killed in 2014 by police
in Ferguson, Mo., a Post investigation found that the FBI undercounted
fatal police shootings by more than half. This is because reporting by
police departments is voluntary and many departments fail to do so.
The Postâs data relies primarily on news accounts, social media postings
and police reports. Analysis of more than five years of data reveals
that the number and circumstances of fatal shootings and the overall
demographics of the victims have remained relatively constant.
Rate of shootings remains steady
Despite the unpredictable events that lead to fatal shootings, police
nationwide have shot and killed almost the same number of people
annually â nearly 1,000 â since The Post began its project. Probability
theory may offer an explanation. It holds that the quantity of rare
events in huge populations tends to remain stable absent major societal
changes, such as a fundamental shift in police culture or extreme
restrictions on gun ownership.
Black Americans are killed at a much higher rate than White Americans
Although half of the people shot and killed by police are White, Black
Americans are shot at a disproportionate rate. They account for less
than 13 percent of the U.S. population, but are killed by police at more
than twice the rate of White Americans. Hispanic Americans are also
killed by police at a disproportionate rate.
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