You're 55 Times More Likely to be Killed by a Police Officer than a Terrorist

You’re 55 Times More Likely to be Killed by a Police Officer than a Terrorist

The first-ever attempt by US record-keepers to estimate the number of uncounted “law enforcement homicides” exposed previous official tallies as capturing less than half of the real picture. The new estimate – an average of 928 people killed by police annually over eight recent years, compared to 383 in published FBI data – amounted to a more glaring admission than ever before of the government’s failure to track how many people police kill.

Via: Jack Schofield at in a Washington Post Blog.