Title: Here’s How Many Cops Got Convicted Of Murder Last Year For On-Duty Shootings | HuffPost
Headings: Here’s How Many Cops Got Convicted Of Murder Last Year For On-Duty Shootings
Here’s How Many Cops Got Convicted Of Murder Last Year For On-Duty Shootings
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Content: After serving out his sentence, Harmon-Wright was released in 2015. Some officers in these cases have served out yearslong sentences for their crimes. Others were in and out of jail in months. Some even became police officers again. But only a tiny portion of cops who kill while on duty ever face charges for their actions, much less actual punishment. The inability to convict police on murder or manslaughter charges for fatal on-duty shootings contrasts with a recent increase in prosecution, Stinson said. In 2015, 18 officers faced such charges, a significant increase from an average of around five officers each year over the preceding decade. Many of these cases involved incidents from previous years and have yet to go to trial, but if history is any indicator, it seems unlikely that many of the officers will be convicted. The tiny number of convictions in fatal police shootings looks even smaller when you consider just how many cases the criminal justice system considers each year. Although there are no reliable government statistics on civilians killed by police, data compiled independently last year by outlets like The Guardian and The Washington Post, or civilian tracker Mapping Police Violence, have led to estimates of roughly 1,000 deadly shootings each year.