U.S. Police Death Statistics

One recurring theme in the "cops kill person" thread is that, unlike many other countries, there aren't any definitive statistics about how many people are killed. There still aren't any definitive statistics but here is a link to a BBC story which summarises a Washington Post data collection exercise.

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Quote:

Data collected by the Washington Post newspaper suggests that the number of people shot by US police is twice as high as official figures claim. The paper said that during the first five months of this year, 385 people - more than two a day - were killed

The number seems high to me but then again I don't properly understand the stresses of being a police officer in the U.S. and/or how well or badly they are indoctrinated or trained. It's still frustrating that these aren't definitive, official numbers but the result of a newspaper study.

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