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fuagf, I saw on the tv news tonight that the officer was trying to shoot that dangerous autistic patient with the deadly toy truck... and he missed. The victim asked the officer, "Why did you shoot me?" The officer answered, "I don't know." It is almost better that the officer was such a poor shot.

We obviously need more intense training of police officers in the US, and it should start with 911 operators.

[fuagf]

US police shootings: How many die each year? .. FEWER than '80s ..

18 July 2016


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On Sunday morning, three police officers were shot dead in Baton Rouge. This attack came just 10 days after five
police officers were killed in Dallas. Both events were revenge attacks for the killing of young black men by police.

The bloodshed has shocked the US, leading President Barack Obama to call for calm. But how many police officers are killed in the US in a normal year? And how many people are killed by police?

Police killed

"There's a widespread perception in the American public, and particularly within law enforcement, that officers are more threatened, more endangered, more often assaulted, and more often killed than they have been historically," says Seth Stoughton, a law professor at the University of Southern Carolina and former policeman.

"I think it's a very strong perception. People truly believe it. But factually, looking at the numbers, it's not accurate," he says.

FBI data on police officers "feloniously killed" - killed as a result of a criminal act - indicates that the numbers have been falling, he says.

Looking at the 10 years from 2006 to 2015 the annual average number of police deaths
was 49.6, Stoughton says, which he notes is "down significantly from the high".

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Killed by police

Official data on the number of people killed by the police turns out to be remarkably unreliable.

"We can't have an informed discussion, because we don't have data," FBI Director James Comey said in the House of Representatives in October.

.. more .. http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-36826297

So police shootings are way down over Obama's watch yet we see this type of conservative
revisionist bullshit that has to be continuously be exposed as false .. this kind of rubbish

...From the beginning of his Presidency he trashed the police which fostered the weakness resulting in mass murder inner cities.
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The post .. "Cops Shoot Unarmed Caregiver With His Hands Up While He Helps Man" this is in reply to is linked first at the bottom here ..

Black nationalist group Washitaw Nation distances itself from the Baton Rouge shooter, who had pledged allegiance to it
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