http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/11/25/1347445/-A-little-reminder-20-years-after-being-ordered-to-tally-cop-shootings-the-DOJ-still-isn-t-doing-it?detail=email
Note: Most arrest-related deaths by homicide are by law enforcement, not private citizens. Rate calculated by dividing deaths by the average census population for each race in 2003-09. "Other" includes American Indians, Alaska Natives, Asians, Native Hawaiians, other Pacific Islander, and persons of two or more races.
The chart above isn't new. Mother Jones magazine created it two months ago. But it is worth keeping in mind amid the fall-out from the grand jury decision in the Michael Brown slaying.
In the accompanying story, Jaeah Lee writes:
• The Federal Bureau of Investigation's Uniform Crime Reporting program records that 410 people were killed in justifiable homicides by police in 2012. While the FBI collects information on the victims' race, it does not publish the overall racial breakdown. • The Justice Department's Bureau of Justice Statistics reports that between 2003 and 2009 there were more than 2,900 arrest-related deaths involving law enforcement. Averaged over seven years, that's about 420 deaths a year. While BJS does not provide the annual number of arrest-related deaths by race or ethnicity, a rough calculation based on its data shows that black people were about four times as likely to die in custody or while being arrested than whites.
• The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Vital Statistics System offers another view into officers' use of deadly force. In 2011, the CDC counted 460 people who died by "legal intervention" involving a firearm discharge. In theory, this includes any death caused by a law enforcement or state agent (it does not include legal executions).
Those Justice Department figures above only cover 2003-2009. And even those are problematic because of the way that local police departments report or don't report statistics on police-involved shootings.
Blogger Jim Fisher has tried to crowdsource police-involved shootings, and he's had some luck. But, while his figures provide a more thorough count than the official sources, it's ridiculous that we still don't have a reliable, thorough, trustworthy, annual government report on police shootings, especially ones in which the people shot are killed.
It's impossible to look at the situation and not come to the conclusion that there are lots of people—police chiefs being prominent among them—who simply don't want people to know the extent of such shootings.
i'm torn which is more egregious the facts (not referring to actual deaths there is nothing more egregious) but the facts or the fact that DOJ is not putting that info out there, and ignoring the order for 20 years what's up with that, and how did Holder overlook that? but if all entities don't cooperate either to hide criminal action by their police or just defying federal orders and refusing to comply. I guess that it all is equally reprehensible, those in towns or cities that have knowledge should post anonymously if necessary let the press do it's job if these municipality's are failing to comply that will put focus on their omission on statistics especially by local police and now that it's a national hot topic maybe something will get done.
with new congress coming in we need to depend on our selves more than ever before, WAKE UP EVERYBODY,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJgxJ6JrPkc
