Figures Don't Lie..

[Willy]

214

 

         people shot dead by police this year

990 people were fatally shot by police in 2015

At least 79 people have been shot and killed by police across the United States within the past 30 days, according to Washington Post data. This database is based on news reports, public records, Internet databases and original reporting.

 

 

 

 

Now in contrast , 

 

• Total Number of Incidents 10,668
• Number of Deaths¹ 2,714
• Number of Injuries¹ 5,474
• Number of Children (age 0-11) Killed/Injured¹ 113
• Number of Teens (age 12-17) Killed/Injured¹ 623
• Mass Shooting² 52
• Officer Involved Incident² 1,011
• Home Invasion² 475
• Defensive Use² 325
• Accidental Shooting² 538
•  

Gun violence  and crime incidents are collected/validated from 1,500 sources daily – incidents and their source data are found at the gunviolencearchive.org w

Looking at this the police have killed just under half of all gun related deaths in america....Food for thought...

Edited March 20, 2016 by Willy

[Norby]

I think officer involved may not be all deaths. Technically it would be that officers are involved in 1/10th of the shootings.  Officer involved may be that the officer died also or they got shot and weren't the "offender".  It's really hard with data, you need to know ALL the specifics of each stat to make good statements, but you could be right if the officer involved all lead to deaths.

[Willy]

I think officer involved may not be all deaths. Technically it would be that officers are involved in 1/10th of the shootings.  Officer involved may be that the officer died also or they got shot and weren't the "offender".  It's really hard with data, you need to know ALL the specifics of each stat to make good statements, but you could be right if the officer involved all lead to deaths.

 Per the Washington Post, 990 people were fatally shot by police in 2015

If that is the case, we still have the data that at least 990 were killed by police. and compared to all deaths,,, were still almost half way of all persons shot and killed.  I am thinking, that officer involved, counts as deaths, could be I am assuming... regardless it shows that police are out of hand.

Edited March 20, 2016 by Willy

[trichcycler]

Go Willy ! thanks for the up to date stats!

[Norby]

Ya but the 214 this year correlates to those bottom stats.  900+ was 2015.  Those stats of 10k and 2k are 2016.

[Norby]

• Total Number of Incidents 10,739
• Number of Deaths¹ 2,738
• Number of Injuries¹ 5,513
• Number of Children (age 0-11) Killed/Injured¹ 114
• Number of Teens (age 12-17) Killed/Injured¹ 632
• Mass Shooting² 53
• Officer Involved Incident² 1,016
• Home Invasion² 477
• Defensive Use² 328
• Accidental Shooting² 540

Gun violence  and crime incidents are collected/validated from 1,500 sources daily – incidents and their source data are found at the gunviolencearchive.org website.

1: Actual number of deaths and injuries

2: Number of INCIDENTS reported and verified

Numbers on this table reflect a subset of all information

collected and will not add to 100% of incidents.

www.gunviolencearchive.org  www.facebook.com/gunviolencearchive

Data Validated: March 20, 2016

 

See these are the ticking stats for 2016 and the # of people killed by cops is 216 while the 990 relates to another set of stats for last year.  If 10k were killed by guns last year it's 10% which is still high and unacceptable considering they can be prepared somewhat if they were given non lethal force, didn't do no knock raids, etc.etc.etc.  But with those stats now it's running about 10%.

[beourbud]

Norby, What did we do to deserve you?

[Norby]

You must've been really good last year.