The Police and the People

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Whatever your political stance or general ideology, this chart listing all those known to have been killed by police in the United States so far this year is hard to ignore. So many questions are raised. Are these statistics correct? Have previous years' statistics been correct, and if not, how can we determine whether the number of such incidents has grown over the years? Is it possible, for example, that we are just more aware of them, that their documentation is more publicly available now, due to the growing prevalence of citizen videos shared over the Internet? If their number is indeed up, could that possibly be connected to the easy availability of guns in the country? Or are officers being trained differently?: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2015/jun/01/the-counted-police-killings-us-database?CMP=ema_565#