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Police fatally shoot nearly 1,000 people in 2016 | The Washington Post
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A year long study by the Washington Post of all shootings by the the police in incidents of law enforcement in the U.S. shows only about 4% of the incidents involve police killing unarmed black persons. Yet a disproprotionate number of unarmed men shot are black or Hispanic- 3 of 5 people. The large majority of incidents involved people who were mentally troubled most of whom carried a weapon, persons carrying a weapon, or persons running from the police when asked to stop. The WP has compiled every police shooting in its database for analysis, something even the FBI does not have and is only now starting to put together. For police the hard part is when to know a certain behaviour such as reaching into the pocket after a police chase was harmless or risking the officer's life, as shown in a video carried by officer Lisa Mearkle in Hummelstown, Pennsylvania, for one of the shootings. Mearkle was acquitted by the jury.
The Washington Post's database and analysis of police shootings to better understand the situation in 2015
12/27/2015
The implementation of "sanctity of life" policies at police departments reduces police shootings but it is also shown to lead to increased crime, says WP. A quarter of the shootings were for mentally ill people and most were carrying a weapon, according to the Post's databas of all shootings in the U.S. Even the FBI lacks such a database and is only now collecting the information for such a database. Still the use of force for small infractions leading to police chases, can lead to better outcomes for officers and for people making the small infractions. In 2015 11 of 65 officers charged were convicted. The Post gives the example of a female officer Lisa Mearkle in Pennsylvania who says she only used her gun when the person she was chasing reached into his pocket. She was acquited by the jury because officers have to make split second decisions or risk their lives. In short the situation is much more complicated than the media makes it out to be, and their are many sides to the story, not merely racism.
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