lundi 11 décembre 2017

More people shot by cops than reported

A recent study by Vice investigative reports shows that

Shot By Cops And Forgotten

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An exclusive analysis of data from the 50 largest local police departments in the United States shows that police shoot Americans more than twice as often as previously known.

Police shootings aren’t just undercounted — police in these departments shoot black people at a higher rate and shoot unarmed people far more often than any data has shown. Recent reform efforts have already worked to bring down police shootings, our investigation shows. Yet Attorney General Jeff Sessions is moving away from these reforms, to the dismay of advocates, experts, and some local law enforcement officials.

VICE News examined both fatal and nonfatal incidents to determine that cops in the 50 largest local departments shot at least 3,631 people from 2010 through 2016. That’s more than 500 people a year. On more than 700 other occasions, police fired at citizens and missed. Two-thirds of the people cops fired at survived.

And, naturally Black victims of police shooting are far more numerous than any other ethnic group, and even more numerous than all other ethnic groups combined. As well as being more than twice as likely to be shot while unarmed than white victims.

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They were more likely than whites to be armed with a gun but less likely to be armed with a weapon overall.

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There is a lot of really depressing information in that article. And because of the limitations of data availability, it's highly likely that the scale of the problem is even higher.


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