The population of Chicago is 2.179 million people. Of that 2.179 million approximately 33% are black. As of this writing, Sept. 26, 2016, 3,218 people have been shot and 556 murdered in Chicago.
Of those shot and killed approximately 95% are people of color. The vast majority are ...
Over the weekend, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Chief Kerr Putney decided to release police video of the officer-involved shooting of Keith Scott. As we saw, the video was inconclusive. It in fact raised many other questions about what happened: why the police fired when they did, and ...
One is too many. No question about it.
One person, just one, out of the over 300 million in this country, shot unjustifiably by the police is one too many.
Goes without saying. Let’s all agree.
When you talk about human lives no price can assigned. No tolerance of an unwarranted ...
I keep saying the same two things over and over and over after the police fatally shoot someone, in particular black men, whether armed or unarmed:
We need to wait for all the information to come out before we make definitive statements, condemn the officer, declare racism as ...
We all know them. The officer that nobody wants to be around. The most disgruntled person (for reasons often unknown) in the organization. The officer who has the “countdown to retirement” app on his phone and finds it necessary to show it to everybody at roll call!
Guess what? ...
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