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Statistics of stranger killings

2017-10-07 01:08:51.221084+02 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

RT Kathryn C-K‏ @kathrynbck  Trying to imagine what a statistically accurate Law & Order series would look like.

Samuel Sinyangwe ‏@samswey

One-third of all Americans killed by strangers are killed by police.

https://granta.com/violence-in-blue/

The article is Patrick Ball in Granta magazine: Violence in Blue: Police Homicides in the United States, a look at the data that's falling out now that there are efforts to track and document police homicides.

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