VICE News collected and analyzed comprehensive data on officer-involved killings that occurred in the year after August 9, 2014. Here's what we found.
At least 1,083 Americans have been killed by cop since 8/19/14, — an avg. of nearly 3 people a day.
While more killed from 8/14 to 8/15 were white, black people per population were more than twice as likely to be killed by cops than any other race. African Americans are also more than 3 times as likely to be killed by police than white people, according to the stats.
Brown's death was a seminal moment in arousing US consciousness of structural racial bias in police departments around the country, and the grand jury's decision 3 months later not to indict Darren Wilson, the Ferguson copr who killed him, proved to many that that bias permeates every facet of the criminal justice system.
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Rob Kall is an award winning journalist, inventor, software architect, connector and visionary. His work and his writing have been featured in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, CNN, ABC, the HuffingtonPost, Success, Discover and other media.
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Check out his platform at Bottom Up Radio Show, and founded and publishes one of the top Google- ranked progressive news and opinion sites, OpEdNews.com
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Rob Kall has spent his adult life as an awakener and empowerer-- first in the field of biofeedback, inventing products, developing software and a music recording label, MuPsych, within the company he founded in 1978-- Futurehealth, and founding, organizing and running 3 conferences: Winter Brain, on Neurofeedback and consciousness, Optimal Functioning and Positive Psychology (a pioneer in the field of Positive Psychology, first presenting workshops on it in 1985) and Storycon Summit Meeting on the Art Science and Application of Story-- each the (more...)
