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Showing posts with label Police Killings. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Police Killings. Show all posts

December 22, 2015

The Donald v. Hillary

Hillary's panties are all wadded up, again, 'cause Trump is noting but  a big old mean, meany bully.

She's upset that Trump used vulgar language to describe her last Presidential election debacle and he referred to her possible bladder issues when she disappeared during the last Democratic debate.

God help us all if this woman is elected. She'll be the second President in a row without any balls.

October 31, 2014

PA Assassin Captured

Here ya go Doom

After murdering one trooper and wounding another, this coward alluded an exhaustive police search for seven weeks:
A survivalist accused of ambushing two Pennsylvania state troopers, leaving one dead and seriously injuring the other, was captured on Thursday by U.S. marshals in an abandoned airplane hangar, ending a seven-week manhunt for him, authorities said.

State police confirmed Eric Frein was taken into custody but released no details.

Two law enforcement officials said he was captured in the hangar. They weren't authorized to discuss the circumstances of Frein's arrest and spoke to The Associated Press on the condition of anonymity. A federal law enforcement official in Washington said Frein was armed when he was captured.
Story here.

August 16, 2014

Police Killings in America

Typical biased, breathless bulls**t reporting by the media.
This is USA Today's fecal offering:
WASHINGTON — Nearly two times a week in the United States, a white police officer killed a black person during a seven-year period ending in 2012, according to the most recent accounts of justifiable homicide reported to the FBI.

On average, there were 96 such incidents among at least 400 police killings each year that were reported to the FBI by local police. The numbers appear to show that the shooting of a black teenager in Ferguson, Mo., last Saturday was not an isolated event in American policing.
Indeed, on the average, 400 people per year are killed by police officers. But this includes all law enforcement personnel, not just locals. And for USA Today to claim that only white police officers are shooting felons is utter trash. There are 430,000 police officers in the US; over 200,000 of them work in cities with a population of 100,000 and over. This is unbelievable. The US Department of Justice Statistics reports, "About 1 in 4 officers were members of a racial or ethnic minority in 2007..." No black officers exercised deadly physical force?

But the police are not the only ones exercising the use of deadly physical force to defend themselves.
Private citizens are also finding themselves in the same situation where they take the life of a felon.

This chart shows the trend for the number of justified homicides  (always investigated by a grand jury or coroner's inquest) by police and private citizens for the past ten years:


Look at the red trend line. In ten years the increase in the number of justified homicides by private citizens is over two and a half times higher (26%) than the police (10%). And if you examine the two five year averages (2003-2007 v. 2008-2012) the citizen involved killings increased three times faster than those of the police (7% v. 20%).

In one year alone (2011 to 2012) the number of felons killed by citizens increased by 15% (from 270 to 310).

Year    Police  Citizen
2003        373          247
2004        367          222
2005        347          196
2006        386          238
2007        391          257
2008        378          265
2009        414          266
2010        397          285
2011        404          270
2012        410          310
(Source: FBI's UCR Expanded Homicides Table 13, 14 & 15 for 2007 and 2012. 
These tables DO NOT capture the race/gender of the felon killed or the officer involved.)

USA Today then manages to smear turd icing on their news cake with this gem:
About 750 agencies contribute to the database, a fraction of the 17,000 law enforcement agencies in the United States.
Several media outlets have reported on this so called study and none of them indicate where the study can be found or how the database was complied. If only 750 police agencies reported, then I can only assume that some dipshit university professor wanted to do a study and asked LEA's to send him the information. Of course they flipped him off.

What a bunch of crap. There are over 400 police agencies in New York alone that report monthly UCR numbers to the NYS Division of Criminal Justice Services which are then transmitted to the FBI. These statistics incorporate police use of force. That's where the feds get their information.

Is this an infallible system? Of course not. But to print that only 4% of all law enforcement agencies report as required is not only reckless, it's libelous.