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Cin · 09-20-2016, 11:12 AM

There were zero police officers convicted when charged with murder or manslaughter of citizens while on duty in 2015. ZERO. To my knowledge that number is still zero. I have not been able to find any police officer convicted when charged of murder or manslaughter while on duty as of yet in 2016. It's possible I just have not been able to find a record of it in 2016 and somewhere, somehow a cop was held accountable, but I'm not aware of it and I know for a fact no accountability in 2015. It is so disturbing I have found myself too angry to read about this sometimes. It is really alarming that the police kill someone every 8 hours. There were 1207 people killed by the police in 2015 and so far as of September 20 there were 837. Are Americans that dangerous a people that even unarmed, they need to be shot dead in the streets every 8 hours? To my knowledge there is no reliable data kept federally regarding police killings. Many are not even reported. The Washington Post started keeping track of fatal shootings by police, the Guardian started keeping track of all deaths at the hands of police regardless of the weapon or means and there is a website, Fatal Encounters, that keeps track also. It seems really sketchy to me that there is no public record of deaths of citizens by police officers. Here is another website called killedbypolice.net that keeps track if you have the stomach for it http://www.killedbypolice.net/

I want to thank Nat for starting this thread and Anya and the others who post articles here, but most of all I want to give a shout out to Andrea for her unflinching dedication to this issue. It is not an easy thing. Thanks Andrea!

09-20-2016, 11:12 AM	#275
Cin Senior Member How Do You Identify?: Butch Preferred Pronoun?: she Relationship Status: Truly Madly Deeply Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: In My Head Posts: 2,814 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 6,333 Thanked 10,436 Times in 2,476 Posts Rep Power: 21474851	There were zero police officers convicted when charged with murder or manslaughter of citizens while on duty in 2015. ZERO. To my knowledge that number is still zero. I have not been able to find any police officer convicted when charged of murder or manslaughter while on duty as of yet in 2016. It's possible I just have not been able to find a record of it in 2016 and somewhere, somehow a cop was held accountable, but I'm not aware of it and I know for a fact no accountability in 2015. It is so disturbing I have found myself too angry to read about this sometimes. It is really alarming that the police kill someone every 8 hours. There were 1207 people killed by the police in 2015 and so far as of September 20 there were 837. Are Americans that dangerous a people that even unarmed, they need to be shot dead in the streets every 8 hours? To my knowledge there is no reliable data kept federally regarding police killings. Many are not even reported. The Washington Post started keeping track of fatal shootings by police, the Guardian started keeping track of all deaths at the hands of police regardless of the weapon or means and there is a website, Fatal Encounters, that keeps track also. It seems really sketchy to me that there is no public record of deaths of citizens by police officers. Here is another website called killedbypolice.net that keeps track if you have the stomach for it http://www.killedbypolice.net/ I want to thank Nat for starting this thread and Anya and the others who post articles here, but most of all I want to give a shout out to Andrea for her unflinching dedication to this issue. It is not an easy thing. Thanks Andrea! __________________ The reason facts don’t change most people’s opinions is because most people don’t use facts to form their opinions. They use their opinions to form their “facts.” Neil Strauss