Newly released data reveals no resolution for families of more than 750 homicide victims. Police refused to release homicide clearance data, so we sued to find out.
I get we love this narrative on reddit/lemmy that cops are just out killing everyone. But that’s simply not true, being hyperbolic about it doesn’t help us address the actual issue - insane violent crime rates in this country. If we had a ‘normal’ amount of violent crimes, how much less police interactions would people have?
We need to clean up the PD’s, but lets not act like our country makes it easy to be a police officer.
I get we love this narrative on reddit/lemmy that cops are just out killing everyone. But that’s simply not true, being hyperbolic about it doesn’t help us address the actual issue - insane violent crime rates in this country. If we had a ‘normal’ amount of violent crimes, how much less police interactions would people have?
We need to clean up the PD’s, but lets not act like our country makes it easy to be a police officer.
Violent crime is down. Why are deaths from police violence higher?