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Casualties

• BMJ Journals Injury Prevention: Miller et al. 17
  • Analyzed 12.3 million police interventions
  • 1,000 deaths (2016)
  • 1 in 291 stops/arrests resulted in hospital-treated injury or death of a suspect or bystander
  • 55,400 people were injured or killed by cops during legal stop and search incidents in one year
• Criminal Legal News: Zoukis 18
  • Cops Killed 100 Times More Americans Than Terrorists Did in 2017 (1,000 people)
• FTP puts some stats in perspective:
  • FTP: you are 47 times as likely to be killed by a cop than by an Islamic extremist
  • FTP: In three years (2015-2017), cops have killed 450% more citizens than four decades of mass shootings
• Criminal Legal News: Chappell 18
  • The DOJ estimates that around 25 to 30 dogs are killed by cops every day, with some numbers as high as 10,000 per year.
  • The totals could be higher -- most police agencies do not formally track officer-involved shootings involving animals.