Bureau of Justice Statistics release new, accurate police killing numbers that are double the historic estimates
by Cory Doctorow from on (#25MGY)
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")