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Yieu
12-03-2014, 10:02 AM
You may be more than 8 or 10 times as likely to be killed by a cop than by a terrorist.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/12/03/hundreds-officer-involved-homicides-not-recorded-by-police-report-says/


National statistics show that hundreds of homicides committed by law-enforcement officers between 2007 and 2012 were not recorded in the FBI's Uniform Crime Report, the Wall Street Journal reports.

More than 550 homicides committed by police during that period were missing, the paper reports. The lack of complete data makes it impossible to accurately determine how many people police kill each year.
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Some entities in the reports said they did not view justifiable homicides by law-enforcement officers as something that should be reported. Some agencies did not consider the events to be actual offenses.

JK/SEA
12-03-2014, 10:07 AM
screw it...we all know whats going on, and cops wonder why they get so much negative press these days...

critical mass is critical.

JK/SEA
12-03-2014, 10:07 AM
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Zippyjuan
12-03-2014, 01:41 PM
The FBI Uniform Crime Report only gets what data local officials give them (it is a voluntary system). Some entire states like New York and Florida don't send any information. Some departments consider "justifiable homicide" (those killed by cops during the "performance of their duties") not to be a crimes so they don't report those. Others give different reasons for not sending the data to the FBI.

SeanTX
12-03-2014, 01:52 PM
Reading the comments it looks like Fox News commenters have no problem with this -- and want more killings by police.

One even used a version of "the people shot dead did it to themselves."