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On-duty police officers have shot and killed more than 700 people this year
Key Excerpts from Article on Website of Washington Post
Posted: September 27th, 2015
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2015/09/1...
The tally of people shot and killed by on-duty police officers passed 700 on Wednesday night a fatal milestone that is almost double the highest number of police shootings ever reported by the FBI for an entire year according to a Washington Post database tracking all shootings death at the hands of police this year. As of Thursday morning, The Post has tracked 703 fatal police shootings. Of the 703 people who have been shot and killed by officers in 2015, the vast majority have been armed with either a gun or other potentially-deadly weapon. At least 65 of those shot and killed were unarmed. Federal data on police shootings is notoriously inaccurate and incomplete in large part because the data they collect is voluntarily reported, and most police departments do not participate. The FBI has never recorded more than 460 fatal police shootings in any year going back to at least 1976. The Post, relying on public documents, local news coverage and original reporting had confirmed 463 such shootings in just the first six months of the year.
Note: A similar project run by The Guardian called "The Counted" tracks police killings by all methods - not just shootings - and had noted 836 such deaths as the above story went to press. For more along these lines, see concise summaries of deeply revealing civil liberties news articles from reliable major media sources.
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