Title: Are black or white offenders more likely to kill police? - The Washington Post
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Are black or white offenders more likely to kill police? (Reuters/Mike Segar)
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Michelle Ye Hee Lee
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Jan. 9, 2015 at 8:00 a.m. UTC
“How [many] police get killed by blacks and how many by whites? That’s important at this particular time.” –Twitter user @_R_S_S_
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A reader posed this question via Twitter in response to a recent fact check on New York Police Department Commissioner William Bratton’s claim that more than 100 officers are killed every year due to anger, hatred and violence. Bratton earned two Pinocchios for misrepresenting data on police killings. While more than 100 officers die on duty every year, accidents generally outnumber murders of police each year. Officers killed by offenders acting out of “anger and hatred,” such as ambush attacks, are a small percentage of officer deaths each year.