Tamir Rice
Common Dreams (12/29/15) reposted Jim Naureckas’ piece (12/29/15) on the Washington Post‘s fatal police shooting tally:
The Post‘s delicate approach to police killings can be appreciated by comparison with the Guardian‘s similar project. For one thing, the Guardian contrasts the numbers with statistics on police killings in Europe, so you can see that the rate at which US cops kill people is far out of line with the frequency of such deaths in comparable countries. For example, England and Wales had 55 fatal police shootings in the last 24 years, while the US had 59 in just 24 days. (The higher level of crime in the US explains some but not much of this difference; the US murder rate is about four times the UK’s, but has a rate of police killings about 70 times as high.)
Source: Fair.org No Spin Section
 reposted Jim Naureckas’ piece (12/29/15) on the Washington Post‘s fatal police shooting tally: The Post‘s delicate approach to police killings can be appreciated by comparison…){kind=link}