Article 25MGY Bureau of Justice Statistics release new, accurate police killing numbers that are double the historic estimates

Bureau of Justice Statistics release new, accurate police killing numbers that are double the historic estimates

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Cory Doctorow
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After years of guesswork -- in which civil society groups and government stats bodies produced radically divergent estimates of killings by police in America -- the Bureau of Justice Statistics has finally released a report that validates the civil society groups, admitting that killings by police in America are 1,100-1,400/year, more than double the official figure. (more")

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