Thursday, December 31, 2015

Here’s How Many People Police Killed In 2015


http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2015/12/28/3735190/killed-by-police-2015/


Despite public protests, occupations, direct action, and increased public scrutiny, U.S. police killed more people in 2015 than in 2014. While numbers vary from source to source — the Washington Post cites 975, while the Guardian puts the tally at 1,125 — the website killedbypolice.net found that police have killed 1,186 people in 2015 (the U.S. government currently does not track how many people are killed in police encounters.)
The data from killedbypolice.net show that white people are the largest group of killed by the police. But when taken together, the number of people of color killed by police — Latino, black, Asian, and indigenous people — surpasses the number of whites. As ThinkProgress noted last year, young black men are 21 times more likely to be killed by cops than young white men, according to a ProPublica analysis. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention also compiled data which show that people of color are most likely to be killed by cops overall.
republicans are telling us and in some cases demeaning those they say don't respect the police, in those cases how do you respect the very ones who beat, restrain and murder you or your children with impunity because they know odds in their favor they'll get a paid vacation they call it administrated leave but it's just buying time to create a excuse even incidents with video can take up to two years officer still gets paid for nothing sounds more like an incentive to shoot or kill to me.

note the majority in graph are Black as i've said before Black people aren't a menace to society society is a menace to Black people.