Amazingly, Police-Related Killings Over Seven Years Was Under-Counted Because of Poor Collection Pro

[uhnope]

Source: Atlanta Black Star

It’s actually worse than we thought.

Police killings recorded over the course of seven years have been under-counted by more than half, an astonishing figure, according to a new Bureau of Justice Statistics analysis. Deaths at the hands of law enforcement, especially among Black males, have been a rallying cry for justice and reform by African-Americans across the country. This report illuminates the concerns and begs for new policies on tracking police-related shootings.

The BJS says documented killings by cops were half of what it found in its research from 2003 to 2009 and 2011. Federal agencies track nationwide police-caused deaths through BJS’s Arrest-Related Deaths (ARD) and the FBI’s Supplementary Homicide Reports (SHR). The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention also tracks law enforcement homicides through the National Vital Statistics Report. However, this tally wasn’t included in the new analysis.

The data’s flaws make it virtually impossible to know the actual level of racial disparities in police use of force, which became a topic of national discussion following the police shooting death of unarmed Black teenager Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, last August.

Read more: http://atlantablackstar.com/2015/03/06/amazingly-police-related-killings-seven-years-reported-poor-data-collection/

[NoJusticeNoPeace]

1. This is racism, this is why only the white establishment can be racist

[BumRushDaShow]

2. Nailed it. nt

[blackspade]

3. Racism has some awfully deep roots in White society.

I think the subtle 'innocuous' racism is almost more damaging on a macro level that the more obvious blatant racism.

[JHB]

5. It's the secret ingredient that gets lots of people to swallow horesehit like it's chocolate...

...and ask for seconds. And thirds. And then go to the "all you can eat" buffet.

[muriel_volestrangler]

4. So the 'Killed By Police' Facebook page that fivethirtyeight used looks pretty accurate

Another (Much Higher) Count Of Homicides By Police

Last week, we wrote about the fact that the U.S. government doesn’t track how many people are killed by the police. The FBI tracks “justifiable” police homicides, which it reports to be about 400 per year, but that tally is an undercount.
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But one recent effort stood out for its apparent comprehensiveness: The Killed By Police Facebook page, which aggregates links to news articles on police-related killings and keeps a running tally on the number of victims. The creator of the page does not seek to determine whether police killings are justifiable; each post “merely documents the occurrence of a death.” He told FiveThirtyEight that he was an instructor on nonviolent physical-intervention techniques and that he prefers to remain anonymous.

Killed by Police had listed more than 1,450 deaths caused by law-enforcement officers since its launch, on May 1, 2013, through Sunday. That works out to about three per day, or 1,100 a year.
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Applying these percentages to the total count at Killed By Police would imply that officers acting in the line of duty have killed in the neighborhood of 1,250 to 1,350 people since May 1, 2013. That’s about 1,000 deaths per year.

http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/another-much-higher-count-of-police-homicides/

[Dawson Leery]

6. K/R. I will send this to everyone I know,

including the "law and order" fascists.

[heaven05]

7. whoa!!!!

I am so surprised!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[father founding]

8. Ask the DOD for a new one

Must have been a malfunctioning abacus.