Killed by police - 2015

[ksen]

The Killed by Police website that aggregates and counts police involved homicides counts 1,200 people killed in the year of our lord 2015.

http://killedbypolice.net/

This would probably be the floor for the amount of people killed by police this past year.

Happy New Year everyone!

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

The Killed by Police website that aggregates and counts police involved homicides counts 1,200 people killed in the year of our lord 2015.

http://killedbypolice.net/

This would probably be the floor for the amount of people killed by police this past year.

Happy New Year everyone!

Our?

 

[ksen]

You have a different calendar system?

 

[Nice Squirrel]

You have a different calendar system?

It is the 49th year of the current Evil Squirrel Overlord.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

You have a different calendar system?

My calendar is centered on the year America stopped being great.

 

[ksen]

I would accept both of those as valid calendaring.

 

[Malintent]

um, the 'lords' year is 5776, obviously. Unless your Asian, then it is "monkey" year.

 

[ksen]

I will pray for you.

 

[Tom Sawyer]

#472 was hit by a bus while running away from the police. I don't think that counts.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

I will pray for you.

Prayer doesn't work in here. rayj wrote a script for the VBB code to ensure that.

 

[ZiprHead]

Hey! I made it through another year not killed by cops!

 

[ksen]

I will pray for you.

Prayer doesn't work in here. rayj wrote a script for the VBB code to ensure that.

RAYJ!!!!!

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#472 was hit by a bus while running away from the police. I don't think that counts.

You think that bus was driving itself?

 

[Tom Sawyer]

You think that bus was driving itself?

Yes. It was in Silicon Valley.

 

[ksen]

You think that bus programmed itself?

 

[Derec]

You think that bus was driving itself?

Yes. It was in Silicon Valley.

Damn gentrification!

 

[Derec]

The Killed by Police website that aggregates and counts police involved homicides counts 1,200 people killed in the year of our lord 2015.

http://killedbypolice.net/

This would probably be the floor for the amount of people killed by police this past year.

Happy New Year everyone!

So how many of those do you think were unjustified?

 

[bigfield]

The Killed by Police website that aggregates and counts police involved homicides counts 1,200 people killed in the year of our lord 2015.

http://killedbypolice.net/

This would probably be the floor for the amount of people killed by police this past year.

Happy New Year everyone!

So how many of those do you think were unjustified?

Police in the USA kill civilians at something like 50+ times the rate of other First World countries, so US police are clearly killing far more people (like over 5000%) than can be justified by a First World nation.

The US governments (state and federal) need to fix some obvious problems to bring those numbers down to something less insane:

1. Your police are poorly trained and resort to shooting too readily. Organise them into state-level police forces that have better training, regulation, and support.

2. Your police are scared of your heavily-armed populace. Enact laws to take most of the guns out of circulation. Fuck your obsolete, musket-age Second Amendment.

3. Your police have a military culture which encourages the use of excessive force and abuse of authority.

4. End the war on drugs that has fueled the rise of organised, well-armed criminal gangs.

 

[bleubird]

So how many of those do you think were unjustified?

Police in the USA kill civilians at something like 50+ times the rate of other First World countries, so US police are clearly killing far more people (like over 5000%) than can be justified by a First World nation.

The US governments (state and federal) need to fix some obvious problems to bring those numbers down to something less insane:

1. Your police are poorly trained and resort to shooting too readily. Organise them into state-level police forces that have better training, regulation, and support.

2. Your police are scared of your heavily-armed populace. Enact laws to take most of the guns out of circulation. Fuck your obsolete, musket-age Second Amendment.

3. Your police have a military culture which encourages the use of excessive force and abuse of authority.

4. End the war on drugs that has fueled the rise of organised, well-armed criminal gangs.

Please,stop making sence!

 

[EricK]

Looking at the gender of those killed it is incredible to see just how sexist the US police force is.

#MaleLivesMatter

 

[ksen]

The Killed by Police website that aggregates and counts police involved homicides counts 1,200 people killed in the year of our lord 2015.

http://killedbypolice.net/

This would probably be the floor for the amount of people killed by police this past year.

Happy New Year everyone!

So how many of those do you think were unjustified?

How many unjustified deaths at the hands of police do you find acceptable?

I need to know how many to find.