kisheria ndio wanaweza kudai ILA sio kwa nchi hii ya kwetu,wajibu wa kisheria haupo kabisa na mbaya zaidi kama haupo kwenye ile 2% ya wanaotawala nchi hii,kwa nchi za wenzetu zinazoheshimu sharia hili haliwezi fanyika maana suspect was running away kwa hiyo hakuwa threat kwa yeyote,polisi wangelazimika kuomba back up ili suspect aweze kukamatwa ,ila kama alikuwa anakimbia na silaha hapo may be deadly force ingeweza tumika maana kuna uwezekano suspect angeitumia kudhuru raia.kuishitaki serikali yetu wakati watawala ndio wanauteua majaji ni ngumu mno,ni rahisi kupata majozi ya kuku kuliko la kuishitaki serikali.
Hebu somo hii toka kwa hao mnaodai kuwa wameendelea kufuata sheria.
In One Year, 57,375 Years of Life Were Lost to Police Violence
A new study finds police killings exact a toll greater than accidental gun deaths.
OLGA KHAZANMAY 8, 2018
A protester with a painted face joins the demonstrations over the police shooting of Keith Scott in Charlotte, North Carolina, in 2016. MIKE BLAKE / REUTERS
People killed by police in 2015 and 2016 had a median age of 35, and they still had an average of about 50 years left to live when they died. It’s this metric—the gap between how long someone lives and how long they were expected to live—that’s the focus of a new study by Anthony Bui, Matthew Coates, and Ellicott Matthay in the
Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health.
To find the true toll of police violence, the authors focused on years of life lost. They used data from “The Counted” a
Guardian database of
people killed by police, to find the races and ages of everyone who died at the hands of police in the United States, then compared them to the average life expectancy for those groups.
Of the 1,146 and 1,092 victims of police violence in 2015 and 2016, respectively, the authors found 52 percent were white, 26 percent were black, and 17 percent were Hispanic. Together, these individuals lost 57,375 years to police violence in 2015 and 54,754 to police violence in 2016. Young people and people of color were disproportionately affected: 52 percent of all the years of life lost were lost by nonwhite, non-Hispanic ethnic groups. Whites also tended to be killed by police at older ages than African Americans and Hispanics—though this is partly because in the general population, whites are older on average than the other groups.
The total number of years of life lost at the hands of police in one year is similar to the number that Americans lose to meningitis, or maternal deaths. It’s more than the years of life lost to accidental gun deaths.
The
study findings echo those from past journalistic investigations.
Washington Post analyses from the past several years show that black males are shot by police at disproportionately high rates. According to several different studies, black men aged 15–34 are
between nine and 16 times more likely to be killed by police than other people. In 2017, police killed 19 unarmed black males, down from 36 in 2015, according to
The Washington Post. The
Post analyses
also showed that police
usually use fatal force against people armed with knives or guns. (The FBI
counted 435 “justifiable homicides” by police officers in 2016, and in 429 of the cases, the person had a firearm when killed.) But unarmed victims of police shootings are also more likely to be minorities,
according to FBI statistics.)
Meanwhile,
46 police officers were “feloniously” (as opposed to unintentionally) killed in the line of duty in 2017, down from 66 in 2016.
Twenty-seven have been feloniously killed so far this year, and another 15 have died in accidents like car crashes. Neither the FBI nor this study tracks their average years of life lost, but one source puts the 2017 fallen officers’ average age
at 43. Another data source suggests that
about two-thirds of people killed by police officers were attacking the officer.
There are ways to minimize police shootings, which happen in other industrialized countries far
less frequently than
in the United States. Gun control
could reduce the number of armed people police encounter. A quarter of those killed by police show signs of mental illnesses, so better mental-health care might further reduce police shootings.
Finally, some police departments have tried de-escalating risky encounters. In Germany, police officers spend years in trainings with titles like, “
Don’t Shoot,” in which they’re lauded for pulling pepper spray instead of pistols. The Los Angeles Police Department recently began presenting a “preservation-of-life medal to an officer who makes great efforts to avoid a fatal shooting,” the
Post reported. Police shootings in L.A. declined—to 15 in 2017, from 21 in 2015. It’s a slight change, but as this study shows, every life, and every year of it, counts.