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Showing Original Post only (View all)U.S. Police Have Shot Dead 385 People In Five Months: REPORT [View all]
WASHINGTON, May 30 (Reuters) - U.S. police have shot and killed 385 people during the first five months of this year, a rate of more than two a day, the Washington Post reported on Saturday.
The death rate is more than twice that tallied by the federal government over the past decade, a count that officials concede is incomplete, the newspaper said.
The analysis is based on data the Post is compiling on every fatal shooting by police in 2015, as well as of every officer killed by gunfire in the line of duty.
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Federal Bureau of Investigation records over the past decade show about 400 fatal police shootings a year, or an average of 1.1 deaths a day. Reporting of shootings by police agencies is voluntary.
But the Post's analysis indicates the daily death toll for 2015 is close to 2.6 as of Friday. At that pace, police will have shot and killed nearly 1,000 people by the end of the year, the paper said.
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I hate to belabor the point, but you will also find that they are overwhelmingly male.
Bonobo
May 2015
#2
One guy that was killed by a cop not only was unarmed he was completely naked
uponit7771
May 2015
#15
Still doesn't explain your post or why you felt the need to say anything about my post at all
Number23
Jun 2015
#25
There has to be a logical reason you set your fingers to type this pointless post to me
Number23
Jun 2015
#24
That's over 750 per year. It's not a war. . . . not quite, but this has to change.
JDPriestly
May 2015
#13
Right. And it's in the US. Do we want even a small war in the US? The answer is clearly "NO."
JDPriestly
Jun 2015
#35