Police Are Killing Fewer People In Big Cities, But More In Suburban And Rural America
By Samuel Sinyangwe
While the nationwide total of people killed by police nationwide has remained steady, the numbers have dropped significantly in America’s largest cities, likely due to reforms to use-of-force policies implemented in the wake of high-profile deaths. Those decreases, however, have been offset by increases in police killings in more suburban and rural areas. It seems that solutions that can reduce police killings exist, in other words — the issue may be whether an area has the political will to enact them.
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Police departments in America’s 30 largest cities killed 30 percent fewer people in 2019 than in 2013, the year before the Ferguson protests began, according to the Mapping Police Violence database. Similarly, The Washington Post’s database shows 17 percent fewer killings by these agencies in 2019 compared to 2015, the earliest year it tracks
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/police-are-killing-fewer-people-in-big-cities-but-more-in-suburban-and-rural-america/
Meanwhile urban criminal violence remains a BIG problem.
So many were killed by gunfire in Chicago Sunday, the medical examiner brought in extra pathologists for the autopsies.
Last Sunday was the most violent day of one of the most violent weekends in Chicago in recent memory.
Of the more than 20 killed by gunfire across the city over the weekend, 15 died on Sunday, so many the Cook County medical examiner’s office said it had to bring in additional pathologists to handle the autopsies.
In all, more than 80 people were shot over the weekend in Chicago amid widespread looting in the wake of the killing of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/breaking/ct-chicago-gun-deaths-sunday-20200602-rcqkeqliivb2lekog7kkk42aci-story.html
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