Posted on 06/11/2015 1:14:10 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
By the Guardian's count, that is
(Newser) A Guardian project that's compiling killings by US police says we're right on track to hit more than 1,000 such deaths by year's end, because we've already hit the midpoint. The newspaper's The Counted project, an interactive database that the Guardiansays uses both reporting and confirmed crowdsourced info, indicates 500 people have already died at the hands of police in 2015, after two black men in New York and Cincinnati were shot this week. These numbers are more than double the latest rate compiled by the FBI (461 in 2013), which manages a "voluntary" reporting system where police agencies can send in numbers of "justified homicides." In those first 500 deaths, 49.6% of the individuals were white, 28.2% were black, and 14.8% were Hispanic/Latino. Only 4.8% were women.
How that stacks up against America's makeup: As of the 2013 census, we were 62.6% white, 13.2% black, and 17.1% Hispanic/Latino. And there's a definite imbalance among those who were unarmed: Per the paper's stats, 30.5% of black people were unarmed, while just 16.1% of white people were (the unarmed total is 108 of the 500). The executive director of Amnesty International USA told the Guardian earlier this month that the "startling" disparity between unarmed blacks and unarmed whites shows we need to "get to the bottom of why you're twice as likely to be shot if you're an unarmed black male." You can explore the database and learn more about the dead here.
Don't want cops killing civilians? Fine. Go all Baltimore and withdraw. Let the natives do all the killing, not the police.
Most of the people killed by cops are not good guys minding their own business.
Good, the more the better. Trails cost money.
Absolutely. It can become a new feral sport.
315 million people, that means you have a 1 in 315,000 chance a year of being killed by a cop. I’ll take that chance versus being killed by a guy in a hoodie down at the 7-11
How many people will black thugs kill?
And that means roughly 749,000 cops will not kill anyone.
The odds are quite good,I think.
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Roger that. The progressives bad mouth and demonize the police while making excuses for punks and thugs.
1,000 people? Wow, that’s almost the number that will be murdered in Chicago this year.
Your chances go way down if you don’t commit a felony or do something stupid during a traffic stop.
Really? I was just walkin’ down the street the other day, mindin’ my own bidness, ain’t dun nuffin,
and a cop killed me.
And don’t take away our right to defend ourselves. We are going to need it after the police withdraw.
True, but the CPD have only shot & killed one person this YTD.
At this rate, in 5 years, there will be no more blacks to kill each other in Newark, Baltimore, Ferguson, D.C. Chicago...
“And that means roughly 749,000 cops will not kill anyone.”..........
My guess is you’re too low on you estimate.
“1000........almost the number that will be murdered in Chicago this year.”.....
Don’t you mean this summer versus the whole year?
How many will Obama sons kill?
500 out of how many perp-cop encounters?
The number by itself may sound big, but out of population of 360 million, it isn’t even a drop in the bucket.
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Reminds me of those ‘diet’ infomercials, etc., that show gallons of fat or sugar or salt a person typically consumes in a year.
They are little more than condensed hype.
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES SAYS NUMBER OF HOMICIDES IN CHICAGO THIS YEAR ARE:
“Not out of the ordinary’.
LOL!!!
Chicago Has Experienced Over 1,000 Shootings So Far In 2015
2015_06_08
J. Knecht
Over 1,000 shootings have been recorded in Chicago so far this year, as the city’s gun violence counts continue to climb.
Year To Date
Shot & Killed: 158
Shot & Wounded: 924
Total Shot: 1082
Total Homicides: 184
BY MICHAEL LANSU
Homicide Watch Chicago
Chicago Police reported nearly four dozen murders in May, and the city is averaging more than a killing a day so far this year.
The 46 slayings in May, as measured by the Chicago Police Department, are the most in any month this year, but the total is not out of the ordinary. Police reported 47 homicides in May 2013, and 50 in May 2012. There were 40 killings during the month last year.
Maybe they should couple that with how many blacks will kill whites ....
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