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Police abuse of power is a subject I’ve been passionate about for over a decade. Some people are just now waking up to it, so I'm here to help.
It's time for a (long) thread to explain why police are allowed to kill and abuse civilians with near-impunity in our country:
Police abuse of power is a subject I’ve been passionate about for over a decade. Some people are just now waking up to it, so I'm here to help.
It's time for a (long) thread to explain why police are allowed to kill and abuse civilians with near-impunity in our country:
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We don’t know the actual number of civilians killed by police because it’s not even tracked by the Department of Justice/FBI. They track civilian homicides, and officer homicides, but not when a cop kills one of us.
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We don’t know the actual number of civilians killed by police because it’s not even tracked by the Department of Justice/FBI. They track civilian homicides, and officer homicides, but not when a cop kills one of us.
nbcnews.com/news/us-news/w…
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Between 2015-2016, the FBI & Bureau of Justice Statistics actually extrapolated what they believed to be a realistic number. They found “*at least* 1900 Arrest-Related Deaths (ARD)” occur per year. That’s more than 36 every *week*.
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Between 2015-2016, the FBI & Bureau of Justice Statistics actually extrapolated what they believed to be a realistic number. They found “*at least* 1900 Arrest-Related Deaths (ARD)” occur per year. That’s more than 36 every *week*.
Top of page 2 here:
bjs.gov/content/pub/pd…
Last month a 7-year-old girl in Texas was killed in a brazen drive-by shooting. The suspect was identified as a white male. Activists & celebrities like Shaun King pounced on the story. Today: Eric Black Jr has admitted to the shooting & has been charged. #JusticeForJazmine 
