The Day Ferguson Cops Were Caught in a Bloody Lie

How many police shootings a year? No one knows
...Criminal justice experts note that, while the federal government and national research groups keep scads of data and statistics— on topics ranging from how many people were victims of unprovoked shark attacks (53 in 2013) to the number of hogs and pigs living on farms in the U.S. (upwards of 64,000,000 according to 2010 numbers) — there is no reliable national data on how many people are shot by police officers each year.

The government does, however, keep a database of how many officers are killed in the line of duty. In 2012, the most recent year for which FBI data is available, it was 48 – 44 of them killed with firearms.

But how many people in the United States were shot, or killed, by law enforcement officers during that year? No one knows.

Officials with the Justice Department keep no comprehensive database or record of police shootings, instead allowing the nation’s more than 17,000 law enforcement agencies to self-report officer-involved shootings as part of the FBI’s annual data on “justifiable homicides” by law enforcement.

That number – which only includes self-reported information from about 750 law enforcement agencies – hovers around 400 “justifiable homicides” by police officers each year. The DOJ’s Bureau of Justice Statistics also tracks “arrest-related deaths.” But the department stopped releasing those numbers after 2009, because, like the FBI data, they were widely regarded as unreliable.

“What’s there is crappy data,” said David A. Klinger, a former police officer and criminal justice professor at the University of Missouri who studies police use of force.

Several independent trackers, primarily journalists and academics who study criminal justice, insist the accurate number of people shot and killed by police officers each year is consistently upwards of 1,000 each year.
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When suffering from the adreneline rush the tendacy to spray and pray is accentuated.

He wasn't fighting for his life you racist ****. What leaves me cold is that someone like you can work as a policeman. You should be down in the sewers clearing blockages away from decent people.

GIUJohn is not fit to be a police officer.

Your problem is you think you have relevance, like when you upbraided America for ignoring you, and shopping on Thanksgiving Day.

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By Robert J. Samuelson
Monday, July 19, 2010

If you want a preview of President Obama's health-care "reform," take a look at Massachusetts. In 2006, it enacted a "reform" that became a model for Obama. What's happened since isn't encouraging. The state did the easy part: expanding state-subsidized insurance coverage. It evaded the hard part: controlling costs and ensuring that spending improves people's health. Unfortunately, Obama has done the same.
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Similar forces will define Obamacare. Even if its modest measures to restrain costs succeed -- which seems unlikely -- the effect on overall spending would be slight. The system's fundamental incentives won't change. The lesson from Massachusetts is that genuine cost control is avoided because it's so politically difficult. It means curbing the incomes of doctors, hospitals and other providers. They object. To encourage "accountable care organizations" would limit consumer choice of doctors and hospitals. That's unpopular. Spending restrictions, whether imposed by regulation or "global payments," raise the specter of essential care denied. Also unpopular.

Obama dodged the tough issues in favor of grandstanding. Imitating Patrick, he's already denouncing insurers' rates, as if that would solve the spending problem. What's occurring in Massachusetts is the plausible future: Unchecked health spending shapes government priorities and inflates budget deficits and taxes, with small health gains. And they call this "reform"?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/18/AR2010071802733.html?hpid=opinionsbox1

HAWKEYE10 SAID
But the American people see through the scam, yet Obama still wonders why he does not get credit for this great thing he thinks he has done. That he wasted a year on when we had pressing problems to deal with. What an idiot he has turned out to be...This was a super critical decision on how to spend a pivotal year of american history, and he got it completely wrong.

Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-New York, said Tuesday (NOV 25 2014) it was a mistake for Democrats to spend their political capital on health care in 2009 when the economy was still flailing.

“For the average middle class voter ... it wasn’t at the top of their agenda,” Schumer said at the National Press Club, second-guessing President Barack Obama's biggest legislative accomplishment, adding that most Americans – 85 percent -- had health insurance either through the government or their employer.

Im an expert shot and have always been in the top five shooters in academy and training classes. (I was cadet marksman of my first academy). I went through a training course where i was voluntarily injected with an Epi-Pen to simulate the fight or flight reaction. The result was that I was only a good shot. (worst score of my life)
Most cops, if lucky, get to qualify once a year. (it's a matter of time and money)
Imagine what happens to a cop who has only a passable score on the range when his ass is sucking up his underwear; he becomes a poor shot. Add any distance over 20 feet and you now have many misses. This was not the reason for high cap. mags. The reason for autos was reloading a revolver when the bad guy has an auto is a death sentence.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/fbi-special-agents-shot-ferguson/story?id=27190128

Two FBI special agents were shot during an investigation near Ferguson, Missouri, this morning, FBI Public Affairs Specialist Rebecca Wu confirmed.

The agents’ injuries are not life-threatening, Wu said. One of the agents was shot in the shoulder, and the other was shot in the leg.

The shooting happened at 2:53 a.m. in a home in University City, located six miles south of Ferguson. The agents were helping the University City Police Department execute an arrest warrant unrelated to nearby protests, Wu said.

The protests continue in response to the August police shooting of unarmed black teen Michael Brown. New unrest followed Monday’s grand jury decision not to bring charges against officer Darren Wilson in Brown’s shooting death.

I'm lucky enough to have the NHS.

Tracy Ballard, 44, brought her 7-year-old daughter to a store on West Florissant to buy candy and soda, before a trip to the beautician up the street.

"I feel sad for the business owners," Ballard said. "It's really sad it had to come from this. We just wanted justice. If we'd have had justice, none of this would have happened."