Tulsa, Oklahoma, has more police shootings per arrests than 93% of the nation's major police departments. Nov 12, 2024 Phoenix man says hot asphalt during arrest caused third-degree burns Michael Kenyon spent more than one month in the hospital after the incident recovering from his burns, hi...
" Tulsa has more police shootings per arrests than 93% of the nation's major police departments, CBS News found using data from Mapping Police Violence. The city's own data shows lower-than-average scores when it comes to accountability — resolution of citizen complaints. Tulsa's own equalit...
There were just under 1000 fatal police shootings per year from 2015 to 2017, a rate of 0.31 per 100,000 population. Black victimization rates were more than twice those for Whites, with Hispanic victimization rates in between. Across all classification schemes there was little difference in ...
The trend of fatal police shootings in the U.S. seems to only be increasing each year, with Black civilians having the highest rates of being killed by police.
Mass shootings have been a standard part of the American experience since the Columbine High School massacre in 1999, with mass murders regularly taking place at schools, malls, movie theaters, offices, stores, nightclubs, and every other conceivable public space. The worst of them all at that...
Would you expect and predict that if Country A has 100 times more firearms per capita than Country B that they would both have the same level of police shootings? Should we be shocked that the US police kill far more people per capita than Sweden?
But the “legal intervention” deaths — an average of 406 per year from 1999 to 20113 — are not useful on their own since many police homicides are misclassified simply because the coroner’s reportdoes not mention police involvement. This count, along with the FBI’s estimate and an inde...
But for much of the two-hour meeting, council members told police Chief Medaria Arradondo that their constituents are seeing and hearing street racing which sometimes results in crashes, brazen daylight carjackings, robberies, assaults and shootings. And they asked Arradondo what the department ...
While there was nothing prohibiting the police from approaching to make inquiry of the Plaintiff, there was no probable cause for her arrest and prosecution; the Plaintiff was sound asleep and the officers who approached her, did so following numerous calls about a woman sleeping in her car; th...
Overall, the study suggests the police killings could contribute 1.7 additional poor mental health days per person ever year, or 55 million more poor mental health days every year among black Americans in the United States. To contextualize those numbers, the authors point to diabetes, which is ...