If they were not recorded as homicides by the FBI, they apparently are not homicides.
The liberal mind never ceases to confound me.
well that does it......the return of comments like burn this bish down are certain to follow
Where are the dog homicide data?
We have a tough, dangerous job.
Our brother cop did not get up that morning with the goal of becoming involved in an officer-involved shooting.
What, are you a hippy..?
Still mad about that ticket, 10 years ago..?
The key thing is for us to go home safely at the end of the shift.
Next time you have an emergency, just call the ACLU.
We have to make split second decisions —you’re being unfair.
Don’t paint us all with the same broad brush.
We’re the thin blue line, what, ya want anarchy..?
You must just be a cop hater.
Although the strict definition of homicide is killing a person, most people use it as a synonym for murder. Immediately the leftists and the conspiracy folks will assume all these are instances of cops murdering innocent civilians.
Funny how there is barely any notice taken when a cop is murdered.
So then the local police do record these homicides. They just don't report them to the federal government a.k.a Obama/Holder Central.
This is a non story.
I’m not naive enough to think all police caused deaths are ‘good kills’. But the preponderance are. Heaven help us when we become an anarchist state.
Who is this Michael Brown character the story mentions? I mean there was this guy named Unarmed Michael Brown that was recently killed. Did they mean him? Why not use his full name? Unarmed Michael Brown.
It would be helpful if the WSJ provided more details on its investigation of the “missing” 550 police homicides.
For instance, is the FBI the only organization that collects data on police shootings?
I doubt it.
In most cities, if an officer even fires his weapon, he is pulled off active duty until an official investigation is completed.
In other words, there is a huge, official, public, paper trail created whenever a police officer even tries to shoot a citizen.
Also, suing police departments is a full time legal specialty for thousands of attorneys. For instance, Johnnie Cochran made a living for 30 years suing police departments before the O.J. Simpson case walked in his door.
I’ll speculate that almost 100% of police homicides are investigated by at least one private attorney sniffing around for a big payday.
The WSJ implication that police are able to conceal police homicides is really absurd.
Bull. Sh*t.
The UCC data are pretty good. Much better than they were in the past. The point that justifiable homicides, as well as manslaughter and murder, by police cannot be teased out of the data may be valid. Possibly Vital Statistics can be used to track all killings due to the intervention of police. Vital Statistics are supposed to track cause of death, as whether suicide, homicide, accident, disease, in a very detailed manner. Not all this detail is published or accessible by query in the database. But, possibly the instances of homicide by police, to include justifiable homicide, are coded in the records and, so, upon a special inquiry can be accessed. Finally, I will state that a pretty good job can be done, nowadays, via google search. I presume almost all if not all deaths due to the intervention of law enforcement are reported by news media. I’m pretty sure you could identify the large majority of them, and construct a database on your own.