Title: Do Police Ever Get Indicted When They Kill People?
Headings: Do Police Ever Get Indicted When They Kill People?
Do Police Ever Get Indicted When They Kill People?
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Content: Almost never. The law only keeps records of what they call “justifiable” homicides, a killing that is somehow permitted due to evidence, no matter how flawed or faulty. Even as America’s national homicide rate continues to fall, the rate of “justifiable” homicides continues to rise. Last year, the FBI recorded 461 committed by law enforcement, which is the highest recorded number in two decades, according to thenation.com. Homicides committed by on-duty law enforcement made up 3 percent of the 14,196 homicides committed in the United States in 2013. An average of about 96 police homicides a year involve a white officer killing a Black person, according to a study done by USA Today. Before that, a report called “Operation Ghetto Storm” gathered information detailing that of the 739 “justified” shootings from 2007-2012, “313 of them were Black, 44 percent (136), were unarmed, 27 percent of them (83) were claimed by law enforcement to have a gun at the time of the shooting, but that could not be later confirmed or the ‘gun’ was in fact, a toy or other non-lethal object.” In recent years, a group called the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement released a report in 2013 revealing that police officers, security guards or self-appointed vigilantes killed at least 313 African-Americans in 2012, a rate of one every 28 hours. Because the FBI’s police homicide stats are collected from voluntary information given by police departments all over the country, it is only fair to be a bit wary of how many of the homicide are actually being reported. One of the few recorded cases ABS could find of a police officer actually being charged for the killing of a Black man is that of Justin Craven and Ernest Satterwhite.