Police shoot and kill at
twice the rate reported by the FBI...
In an alley in Denver, police gunned down a 17-year-old girl
joyriding in a stolen car. In the backwoods of North Carolina, police
opened fire on a gun-wielding moonshiner. And in a high-rise apartment
in Birmingham, Ala., police shot an elderly man after his son asked them
to make sure he was okay. Douglas Harris, 77, answered the door with a
gun.
The three are among at least 385 people shot and killed by
police nationwide during the first five months of this year, more than
two a day, according to a Washington Post analysis. That is more than
twice the rate of fatal police shootings tallied by the federal
government over the past decade, a count that officials concede is
incomplete.
“These shootings are grossly underreported,” said
Jim Bueermann, a former police chief and president of the
Washington-based Police Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated
to improving law enforcement. “We are never going to reduce the number
of police shootings if we don’t begin to accurately track this
information.”
Of course many of them are justifiable shootings where the deceased had a gun and even shot at the officers.
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