Nearly every mass shooting picked up by the media is taken up by anti-gun pundits and politicians as evidence that American citizens’ right to self-defense ought to be abrogated in the name of safety. But there was no Piers Morgan special on CNN about Miriam Carey and the plague of police shootings. In fact, data on “officer-involved shootings” is rare to come by. The Department of Justice, for example, collects data on the use of force by police and complaints about excessive use of force, but does not release the number of police shootings or fatalities. In its fairly comprehensive collection of crime statistics, the FBI even includes totals for the number of police officers almost every town in America has. But it does not ask those police departments to let it know how many people they’ve killed in the line of duty, even as the Department of Justice runs a roll call honoring lawmen killed in the line of duty that includes slave catchers from the 18th century. reason/archives/2013/10/09/who-cares-about-miriam-carey
Posted on: Sun, 27 Oct 2013 14:48:30 +0000
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