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<h1 class="post-title">Citizen Run Database Shows Over 1,000
People Killed by Cops in 2014</h1>
<p class="single_postmeta"> <span>By <a
href="http://thefreethoughtproject.com/author/jay-syrmopoulos/">Jay
Syrmopoulos</a> on December 10, 2014<br>
<b><small><small><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://thefreethoughtproject.com/data-shows-1000-people-killed-cops-2014/">http://thefreethoughtproject.com/data-shows-1000-people-killed-cops-2014/</a></small></small></b><br>
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<p>To date the most reliable data anyone has about law
enforcement killings in the U.S. was the FBI’s statistics
on homicides by law enforcement. But therein lies the
problem.</p>
<p>Those numbers are voluntarily given to the FBI by police,
and many jurisdictions simply don’t hand over this
information, thus making an accurate accounting of exactly
how many people police have actually killed each year
extremely difficult to ascertain.</p>
<p>For instance, the killing of Eric Garner would not be
included in the FBI’s 2014 statistics because New York
doesn’t participate in the voluntary program.</p>
<p>Thankfully there is a new means of aggregating how many
people are being killed by law enforcement. This new tool
for accountability is the website <a
href="http://www.killedbypolice.net/" target="_blank">www.killedbypolice.com</a>.</p>
<p>It’s basically a spreadsheet that lists every person
killed by cops in the years 2013 and 2014. In addition to
naming those killed, it also provides a link to media
reports for each of the killings, age, sex and race if
available.</p>
<p>The information available on the site begins in May of
2013 and runs through now. The novel idea of monitoring
the number of police killings through news reports has
shown to be a much better accounting of deaths at the
hands of cops than the voluntary FBI system.</p>
<p>The FBI’s stats show that in all of 2013 there were 461
people killed by cops, but when using the new site, which
only shows from May 1 to Dec. 31, 2013, police actually
killed 748 people. Keep in mind, 748 is drastically more
than the feds claim police killed the entire year but only
accounts for 8 months of 2013.</p>
<p>The site shows 2014’s total number killed by police to be
at 1,029 with a few weeks left in the year.</p>
<p>Here is a link to their <a
href="https://www.facebook.com/KilledByPolice"
target="_blank">Facebook page.</a> This is another
wonderful tool to be utilized in holding law enforcement
accountable for their actions, as they can no longer hide
these numbers from the public.</p>
<p>This site has shown itself to be a dramatically better
barometer for what is actually transpiring in police state
USA, and accounting for how many citizens are actually
being killed by police, than anything we previously had
available.</p>
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<p>Jay Syrmopoulos is an investigative journalist,
freethinker, researcher, and ardent opponent of
authoritarianism. He is currently a graduate student at
University of Denver pursuing a masters in Global Affairs.
Jay’s work has previously been published on BenSwann.com
and WeAreChange.org. You can follow him on Twitter <a
href="https://twitter.com/SirMetropolis" target="_blank">@sirmetropolis,</a>
on Facebook at <a
href="https://www.facebook.com/SirMetropolis"
target="_blank">Sir Metropolis</a> and now on <a
href="https://www.tsu.co/SirMetropolis" target="_blank">tsu</a>.</p>
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