Comments on: By the Numbers: Police Related Shooting Deaths in the United States

By: MIB

MIB — Tue, 23 Jun 2020 01:11:21 +0000

The trouble is, we just don’t know. And the terminology (e.g. “police related”) seems intentionally ambiguous. For that matter, police reports don’t start at the beginning, but in the middle or even near the end. What was the chain of actions leading up to an event? Even during trial (for the small number of cases that reach trial) there’s an odd dance that impedes disclosure of important information.

As you say, who, exactly, if anyone, initiated the force or fraud in each case?

Jurors should be able to have a neutral officer of the court (neither prosecutor, nor defense lawyer, nor judge) ask witnesses questions on their behalf & without interference of those others.

By: Edward Lyle

Edward Lyle — Mon, 22 Jun 2020 21:53:32 +0000

In reply to Lisa Dinaldo. Excellent post... well done.

By: TONY

TONY — Mon, 22 Jun 2020 12:53:02 +0000

Can you also do charts on Tazzers? I know people have died from being Tazzed and the Elected Officials like to twist things for their agenda, one day they ARE a Deadly Weapon and the Next, they are NOT a deadly Weapon.

By: News Maven

News Maven — Sun, 21 Jun 2020 20:28:30 +0000

Pulitzer Prizes are tarnished.
One was awarded to the St. Louis paper for the Ferguson riots, as they perpetuated the false claim of “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot.”
Another went to the NYT/Wash. Post for “Russia, Russia, Russia” – Fake News!
If you look at their board members’ credentials, it is clearly run by illiberal AOC-like activists in Columbia, NY posing as journalists.

By: Lisa Dinaldo

Lisa Dinaldo — Sun, 21 Jun 2020 19:48:28 +0000

The use of the term “victim” is misleading in the Post’s article and by Tallahassee Reports.

The Bureau of Justice Statistics defines a “victim” as “The recipient of a criminal act, usually used in relation to personal crimes, but also applicable to households.”

I strongly believe a huge percentage of unarmed people shot by law enforcement are not “the recipient of a criminal act” and would rather fall under the Bureau of Justice Statistics definition of “Offender” which reads, “The perpetrator of a crime. This term usually applies to crimes involving contact between the victim and the offender.”

Source: https://www.bjs.gov/index.cfm?ty=tdtp&tid=9