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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMany more people have died after police subdued them than the public knows. These are their stories. (AP)
https://apnews.com/projects/investigation-police-use-of-force/visual-story/Many more people have died after police subdued them than the public knows. These are their stories
Every day, police in the U.S. rely on common use-of-force tactics that, unlike guns, are meant to stop people without killing them.
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After George Floyd was killed under a Minneapolis police officers knee, reporters at The Associated Press wanted to know how many other people died following encounters in which law enforcement used not firearms but other kinds of force that is not supposed to be fatal.
The U.S. government is supposed to track these non-shooting deaths, but poor implementation and inconsistent reporting from local law enforcement agencies mean no one really knows the scope.
A team of journalists led by The AP spent three years reporting on deaths after less-lethal force. For that investigation, done in collaboration with the Howard Centers for Investigative Journalism and FRONTLINE (PBS), reporters created a new database that provides the most complete accounting yet of these cases, and new opportunities to understand patterns in policing.
The investigation identified 1,036 deaths over a decade following encounters that involved less-lethal force. Some cases are well-known. Others have not been reported publicly. The total is undoubtedly an undercount deaths can be hard to verify, including due to the deliberate suppression of information.
More than 800 of the more than 17,000 law enforcement agencies in the U.S. had at least one documented fatality. The nations 20 largest cities accounted for 16% of deaths.
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Many more people have died after police subdued them than the public knows. These are their stories. (AP) (Original Post)
dalton99a
Mar 29
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Policing is an unreformable institution and throwing money at it just makes it worse.
WhiskeyGrinder
Mar 29
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WhiskeyGrinder
(22,357 posts)1. Policing is an unreformable institution and throwing money at it just makes it worse.
2naSalit
(86,646 posts)2. A massive change...
That would help curb this menace is to do a few things. One is to require restitution and all casts of these killings be paid by the personnel personally. When a civil case of wrongful death, for example, is settled... rather than taxpayers covering the judgement, the people who committed the offenses should pay out of pocket. Fuck over someone's life thinking you're above the law, fuck your future and retirement.
And find other ways to starve the police associations and "unions" to death, they are there to shield people from accountability... that's illegal.