Source: Investigation: People shot and killed by police this year – Washington Post.
Blacks shot by US police by threat level: January – February 2016
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Charges following fatal and serious injury New Zealand police crashes, 2003 – 2008
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Source: Rodney Hide, “Pursuit culture skews police priorities”, National Business Review, 19 February 2016, p.28.
Deaths and serious injuries in New Zealand police chases, 2003 – 2008
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Rodney Hide found that one in four New Zealand police chases ends in a crash. Of the 137 police pursuits that ended in death or serious injury between 2003 and 2008 there are 9 violence charges. Six were for manslaughter – all caused by crashes that ended the chase. There was also one charge of murder relating to the crash at the end of the chase. No violence charges arose from information known at the time of the start of the police chase. There was ambiguous information about a charge of kidnapping after a police chase. I could not determine if this kidnapping was known at the time the police chase started and therefore was its motive.
Source: Rodney Hide, “Pursuit culture skews police priorities”, National Business Review, 19 February 2016, p.28.
In all, 13 of the 137 police chases were motivated by the fleeing driver having committed a crime. The most serious of these was burglary. Rodney Hide also found that between 2005 and 2008 there are an average of 182 police chases a month.
I am all for police chasing kidnappers and armed criminals brandishing their weapons. As for the rest, they are not serious offenders. Chasing them puts the public at risk. Most of the fleeing drivers and their passengers are enthusiastic applicants for the Darwin awards.
U.S. police shootings by threat level, January 2016
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Homicide rates across the OECD
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Assault and mugging rates across the OECD
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Why are assault rates so low in the USA that they are next to Japan?
Data extracted on 08 Jan 2016 21:44 UTC (GMT) from OECD.Stat
Deaths by Police Taser in the USA in 2015 by race
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2015 police shootings of unarmed blacks by cause
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Despite what you see on TV, surprisingly few unarmed people are shot because they are reaching for a weapon. Most unarmed suspects shot by police last year were resisting arrest. A few were killed in crossfire or by mistake. The chart below does not include unarmed Blacks who were attacking police when they were shot and killed according to Washington Post database.
Police killings of the mentally ill by threat level in 2015
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Police killings of Blacks in 2015 by threat level
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Law and order in Baltimore
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Crime way down in NYC
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Crime has been trending downwards for 20 years in New Zealand
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@amyadamsMP Justice Michael Kirby on the battered woman’s defence
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