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When Police Kill (Paperback)
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When Police Kill (Paperback)
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"A remarkable book."-Malcolm Gladwell, San Francisco Chronicle
Deaths of civilians at the hands of on-duty police are in the
national spotlight as never before. How many killings by police
occur annually? What circumstances provoke police to shoot to kill?
Who dies? The lack of answers to these basic questions points to a
crisis in American government that urgently requires the attention
of policy experts. When Police Kill is a groundbreaking analysis of
the use of lethal force by police in the United States and how its
death toll can be reduced. Franklin Zimring compiles data from
federal records, crowdsourced research, and investigative
journalism to provide a comprehensive, fact-based picture of how,
when, where, and why police resort to deadly force. Of the 1,100
killings by police in the United States in 2015, he shows, 85
percent were fatal shootings and 95 percent of victims were male.
The death rates for African Americans and Native Americans are
twice their share of the population. Civilian deaths from shootings
and other police actions are vastly higher in the United States
than in other developed nations, but American police also confront
an unusually high risk of fatal assault. Zimring offers policy
prescriptions for how federal, state, and local governments can
reduce killings by police without risking the lives of officers.
Criminal prosecution of police officers involved in killings is
rare and only necessary in extreme cases. But clear administrative
rules could save hundreds of lives without endangering police
officers. "Roughly 1,000 Americans die each year at the hands of
the police...The civilian body count does not seem to be declining,
even though violent crime generally and the on-duty deaths of
police officers are down sharply...Zimring's most explosive
assertion-which leaps out...-is that police leaders don't care...To
paraphrase the French philosopher Joseph de Maistre, every country
gets the police it deserves." -Bill Keller, New York Times "If you
think for one second that the issue of cop killings doesn't go to
the heart of the debate about gun violence, think again. Because
what Zimring shows is that not only are most fatalities which occur
at the hands of police the result of cops using guns, but the
number of such deaths each year is undercounted by more than
half!...[A] valuable and important book...It needs to be read."
-Mike Weisser, Huffington Post
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