US police have reportedly shot and killed 385 people over the past five
months, a rate of more than two per day, reports the Washington Post.
The figure is much higher than typical federal counts.
The analysis is based on data the Washington Post newspaper is compiling on every fatal police shooting in 2015. The investigation also includes information about every officer killed by gunfire while on duty over the past five months.
“We are never going to reduce the number of police shootings if we don't begin to accurately track this information,” said Jim Bueermann, president of the Police Foundation, a not-for-profit organization committed to improving law enforcement.
Federal Bureau of Investigation records for the past decade show the occurrence of around 400 fatal police shootings per year, or an average of 1.1 deaths a day.
The death rate reported in the Washington Post newspaper on Saturday is more than twice that cited by the federal government over the past decade.
Read more: Report: US police officers kill more than two people a day | News | DW.DE | 31.05.2015
The analysis is based on data the Washington Post newspaper is compiling on every fatal police shooting in 2015. The investigation also includes information about every officer killed by gunfire while on duty over the past five months.
“We are never going to reduce the number of police shootings if we don't begin to accurately track this information,” said Jim Bueermann, president of the Police Foundation, a not-for-profit organization committed to improving law enforcement.
Federal Bureau of Investigation records for the past decade show the occurrence of around 400 fatal police shootings per year, or an average of 1.1 deaths a day.
The death rate reported in the Washington Post newspaper on Saturday is more than twice that cited by the federal government over the past decade.
Read more: Report: US police officers kill more than two people a day | News | DW.DE | 31.05.2015
