Nobody Knows How Many Americans The Police Kill Each Year
By Reuben Fischer-Baum & Campaign Zero
Insight: Earlier this month, a police officer shot and killed an unarmed black teenager, Michael Brown, in Ferguson, Missouri. The shooting and the response have reignited concerns about racial profiling, police brutality and police militarization. The incident has also drawn attention to a remarkable lack of knowledge about a seemingly basic fact: how often people are killed by the police.
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Additional tags: Fundamental Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency, Mapping Police Violence, Shrink the Reliance and Power of the Police