Title: Here’s How Many Cops Got Convicted Of Murder Last Year For On-Duty Shootings | HuffPost
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Here’s How Many Cops Got Convicted Of Murder Last Year For On-Duty Shootings
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01/13/2016 11:34 am ET
Here’s How Many Cops Got Convicted Of Murder Last Year For On-Duty Shootings
There’s something strange about this picture. By Matt Ferner and Nick Wing
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Police fatally shoot an average of around 1000 people each year, and the criminal justice system holds that almost every single shooting is legal. Many people viewed 2015 as a year of reckoning for police, with continued scrutiny of the use of deadly force spurring momentum for reform. In reality, however, the road to accountability remains a long one. That point is clearly reflected in the number of police officers who were convicted on murder or manslaughter charges last year for fatally shooting a civilian in the line of duty. In 2015, that number was zero. And that’s not unusual. No officers were convicted on such charges in 2014 either. In fact, since 2005, there have only been 13 officers convicted of murder or manslaughter in fatal on-duty shootings, according to data provided to The Huffington Post by Philip Stinson, an associate professor of criminology at Ohio’s Bowling Green State University. Stinson’s data doesn’t include cases in which civilians died in police custody or were killed by other means, or those in which officers only faced lesser charges.