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Check...I also checked...there is no database......now that is interesting......
Yes this is from a blog...but it is amazingly and dishearteningly true!
about the author -- Hi, my name is D. Brian Burghart. Im the editor/publisher of the Reno News & Review, a dual-masters student and journalism instructor at the University of Nevada, Reno. This is my blog. I live in Reno, Nevada. Ive created this page because I believe in a free democracy citizens should be able to figure out how many people are killed by law enforcement, why they were killed, and whether training and policies can be modified to decrease the number of officer-involved deaths.
Another blog with the same article-- http://www.fatalencounters.org/
http://www.upworthy.com/every-time-...-noticed-one-detail-was-always-missing?c=ufb1
Deaths by police encounters; you'd think there'd be a database for that
One journalist thought so. When he found out there wasn't one, he decided to crowdsource. This is D. Brian Burghart's story.
The nations leading law enforcement agency [FBI] collects vast amounts of information on crime nationwide, but missing from this clearinghouse are statistics on where, how often, and under what circumstances police use deadly force. In fact, no one anywhere comprehensively tracks the most significant act police can do in the line of duty: take a life, according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal in its series Deadly Force (Nov. 28, 2011).
I think we should create the ability to track that act. This idea came to me in the wake of the Oct. 6, 2012, killing of a naked, unarmed college student, Gil Collar, at the University of South Alabama. All I wanted was context, to answer a simple question: How many people are killed by police in the United States every year? I looked. Im still looking. Turns out that Collar was on drugs, including marijuana and 25I-C-NBOMe, also known as 25-I. The freshman never got within 5 feet of the officer. On March 1, 2013, the policeman was cleared of wrongdoing.
I intend to use this website to help create a database of all deaths of individuals through police interaction in the United States since Jan. 1, 2000. Im FOIA-ing various agencies to get the information, but a large piece of thisthe part that will make it sustain after the initial workwill use crowdsourcing to maintain the database in the future.
As a longtime newspaper editor, an instructor, and an advanced student in journalism, I understand standards of ethics and objectivity. I intend to keep this site as impartial and data-driven as possible. I dont have any grievance against law enforcement, but I do believe Americans should be able to answer some simple questions: How many people are killed in interactions with law enforcement in the United States of America? What do those people look like? Are there some jurisdictions where people are more likely to be killed?
Thanks,
D. Brian Burghart
Then there is this-- http://zerogov.com/?p=3514 -- very informative
Yes this is from a blog...but it is amazingly and dishearteningly true!
about the author -- Hi, my name is D. Brian Burghart. Im the editor/publisher of the Reno News & Review, a dual-masters student and journalism instructor at the University of Nevada, Reno. This is my blog. I live in Reno, Nevada. Ive created this page because I believe in a free democracy citizens should be able to figure out how many people are killed by law enforcement, why they were killed, and whether training and policies can be modified to decrease the number of officer-involved deaths.
Another blog with the same article-- http://www.fatalencounters.org/
http://www.upworthy.com/every-time-...-noticed-one-detail-was-always-missing?c=ufb1
Deaths by police encounters; you'd think there'd be a database for that
One journalist thought so. When he found out there wasn't one, he decided to crowdsource. This is D. Brian Burghart's story.
The nations leading law enforcement agency [FBI] collects vast amounts of information on crime nationwide, but missing from this clearinghouse are statistics on where, how often, and under what circumstances police use deadly force. In fact, no one anywhere comprehensively tracks the most significant act police can do in the line of duty: take a life, according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal in its series Deadly Force (Nov. 28, 2011).
I think we should create the ability to track that act. This idea came to me in the wake of the Oct. 6, 2012, killing of a naked, unarmed college student, Gil Collar, at the University of South Alabama. All I wanted was context, to answer a simple question: How many people are killed by police in the United States every year? I looked. Im still looking. Turns out that Collar was on drugs, including marijuana and 25I-C-NBOMe, also known as 25-I. The freshman never got within 5 feet of the officer. On March 1, 2013, the policeman was cleared of wrongdoing.
I intend to use this website to help create a database of all deaths of individuals through police interaction in the United States since Jan. 1, 2000. Im FOIA-ing various agencies to get the information, but a large piece of thisthe part that will make it sustain after the initial workwill use crowdsourcing to maintain the database in the future.
As a longtime newspaper editor, an instructor, and an advanced student in journalism, I understand standards of ethics and objectivity. I intend to keep this site as impartial and data-driven as possible. I dont have any grievance against law enforcement, but I do believe Americans should be able to answer some simple questions: How many people are killed in interactions with law enforcement in the United States of America? What do those people look like? Are there some jurisdictions where people are more likely to be killed?
Thanks,
D. Brian Burghart
Then there is this-- http://zerogov.com/?p=3514 -- very informative
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