Few Police Prosecutions in Shooting Cases

[ksen]

http://www.policemisconduct.net/few-police-prosecutions-in-shooting-cases/

It is important to note that untold thousands of people were killed in police-involved shootings during that period. Just in Los Angeles County, California, there have been at least 409 police-involved shootings since 2010—and yet there hasn’t been a single prosecution for one since 2001.

I find it hard to believe that out of 1,000+ police shootings that none were prosecutable in Los Angeles County.

This is the problem we're trying to get fixed. This much extrajudicial killing is unnecessary and in a supposedly modern nation should be unacceptable.

 

[Nice Squirrel]

 

[Archimedes]

I've just across a statistic that 461 people were killed by police officers in the USA in 2013 and that's not the full total because apparently some police departments don't report to the FBI's database where that number came from. For comparison, the figure for the UK for the same year was zero. In the four years running up to 2012, police officers in the UK used firearms 18 times resulting in 9 fatalities.

Those figures are just fucking insane to me.

 

[ksen]

It is insane and hopefully people here are starting to wake up to that fact. But without good statistics it's hard to get a handle on just how bad the problem is. There was a bill in our congress recently to require the gathering of this sort of information instead of leaving it voluntary. I don't know what happened to it though.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

I've just across a statistic that 461 people were killed by police officers in the USA in 2013 and that's not the full total because apparently some police departments don't report to the FBI's database where that number came from. For comparison, the figure for the UK for the same year was zero. In the four years running up to 2012, police officers in the UK used firearms 18 times resulting in 9 fatalities.

Those figures are just fucking insane to me.

I can only assume that the British police are dying daily because they aren't using hand guns.

 

[ronburgundy]

I've just across a statistic that 461 people were killed by police officers in the USA in 2013 and that's not the full total because apparently some police departments don't report to the FBI's database where that number came from. For comparison, the figure for the UK for the same year was zero. In the four years running up to 2012, police officers in the UK used firearms 18 times resulting in 9 fatalities.

Those figures are just fucking insane to me.

I can only assume that the British police are dying daily because they aren't using hand guns.

No, they aren't dying because the British criminals aren't using and don't even have hand guns, and their criminals hardly ever kill anyone relative to US criminals (700 homicides versus 15,000 per year). We could adjust those numbers for population (still 1:5 ratio), but why bother since we just having fun tossing about meaningless numbers and making meaningless comparisons as though it tells us something.

How often US cops shoot when their is no justification cannot be informed in any way by comparing them to cops who hardly ever encounter guns at all or homicide.