These are hard facts … numbers are here!!
A new study provides jaw-dropping evidence of America’s police brutality problem by documenting 55,300 cases in a single year.
Source: First of Its Kind Study Shows 55,400 People Hospitalized or Killed by US Cops in a Single Year
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If anyone needed a reminder that America has a police brutality problem, the deaths of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile provided it. Actual numbers on violent police encounters are difficult to come by, but this dearth of data is getting more attention.
New research published in the British Medical Journal demonstrates the danger posed to citizens by the most routine police practice of a “legal stop.”
Researchers analyzed 12.3 million police interventions from 2012 and found that approximately 55,400 people were injured or killed by cops during legal stop and search incidents in one year. Of this number, about 1,000 were killed, with vast majority dying…
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Very scary numbers – we may have 1 or 2 every so often here in New Zealand.
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O-M-G!!! It’s also a shame … 😳
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