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New Study: Blacks 20% Less Likely to Be Shot in Tense Confrontation with Police

Facts are important. No matter how we feel about a particular issue, it is important to weigh all available facts as objectively as possible. A black economist from Harvard decided to do just that; spending more than 3,000 hours combing through police reports and statistics with his team. However, the results surprised him. Professor Roland…

Expendable Animals: Increasing Trend of Dogs Being Shot by Police

Expendable Animals: Increasing Trend of Dogs Being Shot by Police

Police killings of family pets on the rise By Resa Willis In a time of outrage over police shootings of unarmed suspects, mainstream media has a tendency of overlooking other egregious acts of authority overreach occurring right under our collective noses. The public, seemingly desensitized to much of the human on human violence occurring across the…

New Report Examines How Many Police Shootings Are Justified

New Report Examines How Many Police Shootings Are Justified

Casey Harper A new Washington Post analysis shows that in almost all fatal police shootings, police are totally justified. The report analyzed 800 fatal police shootings. “But only a small number of the shootings — roughly 5 percent — occurred under the kind of circumstances that raise doubt and draw public outcry, according to an analysis…