On Wednesday, August 27, 2014 1:46:28 PM UTC-4, John H. wrote:
On Wed, 27 Aug 2014 11:12:14 -0400, wrote:



On Wed, 27 Aug 2014 06:00:01 -0400, F*O*A*D wrote:





We don't even have a handle in this country of just how many people are

shot by the police each year.



The unknown number of people killed in police-involved shootings each

year, as FiveThirtyEight reports:



Efforts to keep track of �justifiable police homicides� are beset

by systemic problems. �Nobody that knows anything about the SHR puts

credence in the numbers that they call �justifiable homicides,�� when

used as a proxy for police killings, said David Klinger, an associate

professor of criminology and criminal justice at the University of

Missouri who specializes in policing and the use of deadly force. And

there�s no governmental effort at all to record the number of

unjustifiable homicides by police. If Brown�s homicide is found to be

unjustifiable, it won�t show up in these statistics.



Four per cent is the percentage of American law enforcement agencies

that report any police-involved shootings to the FBI�s database -- 700

out of a total of 17,000, according to USA Today. These agencies only

record so-called "justifiable homicides," or incidents in which an armed

suspect was shot by police. All in all, we're left with a reporting

system that tells us very little about how many people are killed by

police, and nothing about those killed in an unjust fashion.





I have heard that too but wouldn't "unjust" shootings result in some

kind of action against the police or the policeman?

It would certainly show up in the CDC statistics JP likes to

reference.

Are you saying these deaths simply go away without any investigation

at all?

Most if not all police departments have some kind of shooting board

that investigates every time a cop fires his weapon on the street.



Given the unionization of police, I don't see how Harry could think they'd be anything but upright

and honest.

And of course, their own internal reviews of their shootings would be fair and even-handed. Being union and all.