Police Brutality Notes
Police brutality notes:
http://graphs.net/police-brutality-statistics.html :
25% of all united state police officers say that they have witnessed fellow officers harassing a citizen “most likely because of his/her race”
More than 10,000 complaints of police abuse were filed only in Chicago in a time span of 2 years. Only 19 resulted in meaningful disciplinary action.
Graphs.net. N.p., n.d. Web. 12 Feb. 2015. <http://graphs.net/ police-brutality-statistics.html>.
http://www.bustle.com/articles/36096-do-police-shoot-black-men-more-often-statistics-say-yes-absolutely
According to the FBI’s most recent accounts of “justifiable homicide,” in the seven years between 2005 and 2012, a white officer used deadly force against a black person almost two times every week
Of those black people killed, nearly one in every five were under 21 years of age
only 8.7 percent of white people killed by police officers were younger than 21.
These numbers are likely underestimates, as police departments self-report these statistics, and only 750 of the 17,000 law enforcement agencies in the United States participated
In 2007, a joint effort by ColorLines and the Chicago Reporter examined police shootings in the 10 largest cities in the U.S., and in every city, African Americans comprised a disproportionately large percentage of those killed.
The cities with the greatest racial disparity in shootings were New York, San Diego, and Las Vegas — in each of these cities, the percentage of black people killed was at least twice that of their percentage of the city’s population
if these statistics remained constant in 2010, when the percentage of black people in New York City was 25 percent, a whopping 50 percent of those killed in police shootings would have been of African American descent.
according to a 2008 Department of Justice Police Public Contact Survey, 74 percent of blacks felt that police used “excessive force” when dealing with them, a number much greater
http://graphs.net/police-brutality-statistics.html :
25% of all united state police officers say that they have witnessed fellow officers harassing a citizen “most likely because of his/her race”
More than 10,000 complaints of police abuse were filed only in Chicago in a time span of 2 years. Only 19 resulted in meaningful disciplinary action.
Graphs.net. N.p., n.d. Web. 12 Feb. 2015. <http://graphs.net/ police-brutality-statistics.html>.
http://www.bustle.com/articles/36096-do-police-shoot-black-men-more-often-statistics-say-yes-absolutely
According to the FBI’s most recent accounts of “justifiable homicide,” in the seven years between 2005 and 2012, a white officer used deadly force against a black person almost two times every week
Of those black people killed, nearly one in every five were under 21 years of age
only 8.7 percent of white people killed by police officers were younger than 21.
These numbers are likely underestimates, as police departments self-report these statistics, and only 750 of the 17,000 law enforcement agencies in the United States participated
In 2007, a joint effort by ColorLines and the Chicago Reporter examined police shootings in the 10 largest cities in the U.S., and in every city, African Americans comprised a disproportionately large percentage of those killed.
The cities with the greatest racial disparity in shootings were New York, San Diego, and Las Vegas — in each of these cities, the percentage of black people killed was at least twice that of their percentage of the city’s population
if these statistics remained constant in 2010, when the percentage of black people in New York City was 25 percent, a whopping 50 percent of those killed in police shootings would have been of African American descent.
according to a 2008 Department of Justice Police Public Contact Survey, 74 percent of blacks felt that police used “excessive force” when dealing with them, a number much greater