Police shootings...
Dec. 29th, 2011 12:38 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
milktreePolice killed by guns in 2011: 68
Civilians killed by police in 2010: 387
http://www.lvrj.com/news/deadly-force/142-dead-and-rising/national-data-on-shootings-by-police-not-collected-134256308.html
A third of whom were unarmed:
http://www.chron.com/news/article/One-in-three-police-shootings-involve-unarmed-1651275.php
100 a year die from police tasers:
http://newworldorderreport.com/News/tabid/266/ID/5299/2-People-die-every-week-from-tasers-shot-by-police-and-yet-our-country-seems-to-not-care.aspx
When civilians die, there's no repercussions for the police:
http://motherjones.com/mojo/2010/07/when-police-shoot-unarmed-man-oscar-grant-verdict-Mehserle
Yea, it's shitty research, completed over the course of nearly five minutes with google, but even if the numbers are wrong by a factor of three it's still really alarming.
Civilians killed by police in 2010: 387
http://www.lvrj.com/news/deadly-force/142-dead-and-rising/national-data-on-shootings-by-police-not-collected-134256308.html
A third of whom were unarmed:
http://www.chron.com/news/article/One-in-three-police-shootings-involve-unarmed-1651275.php
100 a year die from police tasers:
http://newworldorderreport.com/News/tabid/266/ID/5299/2-People-die-every-week-from-tasers-shot-by-police-and-yet-our-country-seems-to-not-care.aspx
When civilians die, there's no repercussions for the police:
http://motherjones.com/mojo/2010/07/when-police-shoot-unarmed-man-oscar-grant-verdict-Mehserle
Yea, it's shitty research, completed over the course of nearly five minutes with google, but even if the numbers are wrong by a factor of three it's still really alarming.
