AlterNet - Any guesses? More Americans Killed By Police Than By Terrorists: With Crime Down, Why Is Police Aggression Up? March 20, 2014 | Like this article? Join our email list: Stay up to date with the latest headlines via email. This article first appeared at WhoWhatWhy. You might not know it from watching TV news, but FBI statistics show that crime in the U.S. So why are we seeing an ever increasing militarization of policing across the country? Given the good news on crime, what are we to make of a report by the Justice Policy Institute, a not-for-profit justice reform group, showing that state and local spending on police has soared from $40 billion in 1982 to more than $100 billion in 2012. What these statistics make clear is that policing in America is ramping up even as the crime rate is falling. To the advocates of militarized policing, this just proves that more and better-armed cops are the answer to keeping the peace. Kirkpatrick has the credentials and training to look beyond statistics and simplistic answers to the underlying social forces at work here.
Surprising Reasons for Drop in Crime Rate. Guns, Freedom and Silence. Report on the Extrajudicial Killings of 110 Black People | Malcolm X Grassroots Movement. Report on the Extrajudicial Killing of 120 Black People This report was produced for the “No More Trayvon Martins Campaign”, demanding a National Plan of Action for Racial Justice. This is the 2nd Major report of the Campaign. Download the Fully Illustrated Version of the Report Using this link (PDF). [UPDATED: Monday, July 16, 2012] A human rights crisis confronts Black people in the United States. Since January 1, 2012, police and a much smaller number of security guards and self-appointed vigilantes have murdered at least 120 Black women and men. These killings are definitely not accidental or random acts of violence or the work of rogue cops. The corporate media have given very little attention to these extrajudicial killings.
However, we have studied each of the reports of these deaths — including false, implausible and inconsistent claims by police and witness reports that contradict police reports. For those who doubted the framing of the “Trayvon Martin is All of Us!” 1. 4. 5. 6. Unarmed Black Man Shot in the Back by San Antonio Police, Parents Say.
SAN ANTONIO (CN) - An off-duty San Antonio police officer shot to death an unarmed black man as he walked away from a restaurant drive-through, the man's parents claim in court. Cheryl Jones and Black Lamkin sued the city, police Officer Robert Encina, Quinonez Foodservice, Chacho's 8614 Perrin Beitel Ltd. and John Burke, president of Quinonez and Chacho's, in Federal Court. Their son, Marquis Jones, 23, was a passenger a car driven by Fabian Garcia on Feb. 28. Jones' sister, Whitney Jones, and her roommate, Dominue Carter, also were passengers. None are parties to the lawsuit. Garcia's car struck the car in front of it in the drive-through lane at Chacho's and Chalucci's, a Tex-Mex restaurant in northeast San Antonio.
Encina was in uniform working security at the restaurant. "Out of nowhere, defendant Encina approached Garcia's car and demanded that he turn off his vehicle and get out of his car for no lawful reason," the 26-page complaint states. Jones' parents disagree. "stand your ground" The Drone War Kill List & Extra Judicial Killings.