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[liberalnarb]

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[Skinner]

1. Do You have a link to that WaPo article? (nt)

[liberalnarb]

3. Yes

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/fatal-police-shootings-in-2015-approaching-400-nationwide/2015/05/30/d322256a-058e-11e5-a428-c984eb077d4e_story.html

[MFM008]

2. I saw this first hand

from 1980 to 1990 I was involved with our small towns police dept.
They started out with 6 cops.
There always was an attitude against people of color and women.
I was told women shouldn't be cops. period. Just dispatchers.
They had a reason for pulling people over
"contempt of cop"
and
"BBAD" Being black and driving.
Most of them had been x- military, especially x- MP's
always an attitude.
None of them deserved to be killed,
one was my best friend (the most open minded)
whom i was talking to when he died of a heart attack on the phone
aged 58 in 2010.
I miss him deeply.

[liberalnarb]

4. Sorry to hear about your friend.

[MFM008]

8. Thanks

[tirebiter]

5. All politics is local

And so is policing. This did nothing to to even establish frontier justice in Minnesota or Louisiana. A big minus.

[etherealtruth]

6. Here is some more info I found last night

.... I posted it in response to a poster that seemed very invested tin the idea that there is no problem (or possibly the victims brought it on themselves).

https://www.propublica.org/article/deadly-force-in-black-and-white

http://journalistsresource.org/studies/government/criminal-justice/police-reasonable-force-brutality-race-research-review-statistics

http://cjp.sagepub.com/content/early/2012/07/18/0887403412452424.abstract

[Bluenorthwest]

7. This link is to Guardian UK's page 'The Counted' People Killed by police in the US.

It has lots of information useful in countering such misinformed persons. It is an extensive resource.
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2015/jun/01/the-counted-police-killings-us-database