The Feds passed a law ten or so years ago that said that all deadly violent incidents between the police and civilians should be reported and summarized for the nation. It was never done because evidently the police only do what they want to and they sure as hell didn't want their US Record level of Police mayhem reported on. So Deadspin, a division of Gawker is crowd sourcing the data. Which is cool because you really can't count on the state to hold itself accountable - it's a series of monopolies with special privileges run by corrupt lawyers called 'politicians'. It's about as crooked an institution that you'll see this side of the Scoliosis Society.
Reason has more.
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As noted last week here on Hit
& Run last week and on
FiveThirtyEight.com yesterday, there is
no comprehensive national database of shootings
by police. Though academics like
David Klinger and
Jim Fisher have been on the case for years, there hasn't
been a coordinated effort to compile all the necessary data into
one place, until now.
As part of its coverage of the unrest in Ferguson, MO, following
the police shooting death of unarmed teenager, Michael Brown,
Deadspin, the hugely popular
Gawker Media-affiliated sports and pop culture website, is asking
its readers to help
crowdsource information on police shootings from 2011-2013
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