There’s a central question the U.S. appears to be unequipped to answer about police killings: Are more people dying at the hands of law enforcement now than ever?
As of Jan. 31, 2023, Mapping Police Violence reported that 1,192 people had been killed by police in 2022. The Post found that there were 1,096 fatal police shootings in 2022. PolitiFact asked the CDC about its 2022 statistics but did not hear back. As for the FBI, the agency’sThese figures alone don’t speak to the circumstances of the individual encounters. Police killings that are determined to becapture most of the media attention.
"Based on the descriptions that are given, many of these incidents don't jump out as encounters that are uncalled for," Nagin said."Now, that doesn’t mean that some of them weren’t, like the incidents with George Floyd and Tyre Nichols, but I think it’s an important, nuanced point.
His analysis showed a 69% reduction in the rate of officer-involved fatal shootings per 100,000 people in those 18 cities since the 1970s. He also said the decrease in the cohort he examined is significant enough that it can be extrapolated to cities across the nation. Frank Edwards, an assistant professor at Rutgers University’s school of criminal justice, however, said the picture that emerges using Moskos’ data is problematic for two reasons: It draws conclusions based on a limited number of cities and compares per capita rates to total incident counts.
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