First of Its Kind Study Shows 55,400 People Hospitalized or Killed by US Cops in a Single Year
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The Free Thought Project
July 26, 2017

“Researchers analyzed 12.3 million police interventions from 2012 and found that approximately 55,400 people were injured or killed by cops during legal stop and search incidents in one year. Of this number, about 1,000 were killed, with vast majority dying from gunshot wounds. The remaining 54,400 were hospitalized with serious injuries, mostly from blunt objects.”

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