Crime Over 17,000 Deaths Caused by Police Have Been Misclassified Since 1980

[HomeCheese]

Pretty interesting study on the number of people killed by police, turns out it's much more common than we thought. The study also suggest that AA's die in such encounters at a rate 3.5 times the rate white people do.

Original numbers have something like 1,000 Americans killed by police each year but now maybe it's more like 1,425 a year.



https://www.npr.org/2021/10/01/1041989880/deaths-caused-by-police-misclassified

"Deaths involving police have been greatly undercounted in the United States, and African American people die in such encounters at 3.5 times the rate of whites, according to a new analysis by public health researchers.

In an article published Thursday in the medical journal The Lancet, researchers found that deaths from police violence between 1980 and 2018 were misclassified by 55.5% in the U.S. National Vital Statistics System, which tracks information from death certificates."

 

[Hadron90]

The cop that killed Ashley Babbitt, an unarmed mother, with no warning, is still walking free. We need to defund the capital police.

 

[terrapin]

not surprised

 

[nostradumbass]

These activist groups and the media have lied about every single case so far, but I'm sure there's absolutely no fuckery at all with these vague new additions.

High speed chase, guy crashes his own car = "misclassified police violence".

Funding
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities

 

[Cariñito]

These activist groups and the media have lied about every single case so far, but I'm sure there's absolutely no fuckery at all with these vague new additions.

High speed chase, guy crashes his own car = "misclassified police violence".

Break down each one and tell us.

 

[CantCucktheTuck]

I'm thinking they had covid.

 

[andnowweknow]

The cop that killed Ashley Babbitt, an unarmed mother, with no warning, is still walking free. We need to defund the capital police.

Dumb.

 

[nostradumbass]

Break down each one and tell us.

The article didn't name a single one.

 

[Renard]

The "1000/year" figure comes from the WaPo database which already aggregates the numbers from multiple different independent sources, not from state numbers. The database was set up by lefties who hate police. So no, it wouldn't magically become "1500 a year;" everything is already accounted for. Pretty much none of our understanding of police violence come from official numbers because they're not released, this changes nothing. I can buy that during the 80s crime wave some stuff was left uncounted though. Finding errors in old numbers doesn't mean it's happening now. And as the WaPo database demonstrates, even if it were being uncounted in official numbers it's irrelevant. Nice woke waste of money study from our buddy Bill Gates.

 

[Red Dragoniop]

Dumb.

great input..

 

[andnowweknow]

great input..

That post warranted something with depth in your opinion? Feel bad for Ashli Babbitt. She's was doing something incredibly dangerous and stupid.

 

[RogerB08]

Uh oh, all the sherdog fashos are gonna be all up in their feels and clutching their pearls over this one.

 

[Queen B]

Remember when they said "a man tripped over his own foot"

 

[Queen B]

and heres Derek Chauvin's cover up after the lynching of George Floyd

without the video he wouldve been walking free

 

[HomeCheese]

Break down each one and tell us.

LOL!

 

[HomeCheese]

The "1000/year" figure comes from the WaPo database which already aggregates the numbers from multiple different independent sources, not from state numbers. The database was set up by lefties who hate police. So no, it wouldn't magically become "1500 a year;" everything is already accounted for. Pretty much none of our understanding of police violence come from official numbers because they're not released, this changes nothing. I can buy that during the 80s crime wave some stuff was left uncounted though. Finding errors in old numbers doesn't mean it's happening now. And as the WaPo database demonstrates, even if it were being uncounted in official numbers it's irrelevant. Nice woke waste of money study from our buddy Bill Gates.

I guess you didn't read the article. They have been finding errors from 2014 moving forward.

"That realization isn't entirely new. After the 2014 shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., news organizations started to keep their own tallies of police-related deaths, which turned out to be higher than the government's numbers."

 

[ferrisjso]

Pretty interesting study on the number of people killed by police, turns out it's much more common than we thought. The study also suggest that AA's die in such encounters at a rate 3.5 times the rate white people do.

Original numbers have something like 1,000 Americans killed by police each year but now maybe it's more like 1,425 a year.



https://www.npr.org/2021/10/01/1041989880/deaths-caused-by-police-misclassified

"Deaths involving police have been greatly undercounted in the United States, and African American people die in such encounters at 3.5 times the rate of whites, according to a new analysis by public health researchers.

In an article published Thursday in the medical journal The Lancet, researchers found that deaths from police violence between 1980 and 2018 were misclassified by 55.5% in the U.S. National Vital Statistics System, which tracks information from death certificates."

Given how police departments work makes sense in any situation where there's anything resembling ambiguity they'd classify it as something else.

 

[freakroor]

police love to play with numbers. all these "10 million dollar drug bust" that are just a few weed plants in some guys garage. dumb fucks.

 

[badascan]

"caused by police"? Do these numbers include incidents where the dead person pulls a gun or fights the police in heightened situations?

The article states incidents are going up over time... Is this because of systemic racism as suggested or because of many factors, some being the general attitude toward police and policing in certain communities as well as a culture of supporting criminality leading to increased interaction and conflict? An attitude that's evoked and perpetuated by the media with articles like this one?

 

[genecop]

Nobody knows how to truly count…the fuck up the Covid Death count, and now this…