Tag: Police Use of Force

Why Cops Shoot: The entire Tampa Bay Times project on Florida police | Tampa Bay Times

No one was keeping track of police shootings in the country’s third-largest state. So in 2014, the Tampa Bay Times set out to count every officer-involved shooting in Florida during a six-year period. We learned that at least 827 people were shot by police — one every 2½ days. We learned that blacks are shot at a higher rate than whites. We learned that on-duty police are almost never charged with crimes for firing, even though agencies pay millions to settle civil lawsuits.

We learned that there are ways to avoid some of the violence.
— Read on projects.tampabay.com/projects/2017/investigations/florida-police-shootings/

Documentary Uses Body Cam Footage to Examine Fatal 2018 Chicago Police Shooting | Chicago News | WTTW

The movie is about Harith Augustus, a 37-year-old barber who was shot and killed by police in South Shore in July 2018. The shooting sparked immediate public outcry and legal fights for full access to police body camera video.
— Read on news.wttw.com/2025/02/19/documentary-uses-body-cam-footage-examine-fatal-2018-chicago-police-shooting

See the documentary here

The Public Health Risk of Police Violence and Pediatric Responsibility w/ Dr Jeffrey Eugene & Dr George Dalembert | KPFA

The Public Health Risk of Police Violence and Pediatric Responsibility w/ Dr Jeffrey Eugene & Dr George Dalembert | KPFA
— Read on kpfa.org/area941/episode/the-public-health-risk-of-police-violence-and-pediatric-responsibility-w-dr-jeffrey-eugene-dr-george-dalembert/

Attorney for victim’s family in fatal Spokane Police shooting slams department after release of body camera footage

The Spokane Police Department released excerpts of body camera footage from the fatal police shooting of an unarmed 35-year-old man, David M. Novak, earlier this…
— Read on www.inlander.com/news/attorney-for-victims-family-in-fatal-spokane-police-shooting-slams-department-after-release-of-body-camera-footage-18356706

The legacy of lynching in school policing

#AssaultAtSpringValley: The legacy of lynching in school policing analyzes 460 school policing assaults to assess the extent to which school policing places students at risk of physical and sexual assault. Additionally, the report utilizes two lynching datasets to explore the relationship between lynching in the U.S. and current school police violence, demonstrating that school policing assaults are acts of state sanctioned violence that extend the legacies of lynching into the modern classroom.

We also explore the importance of Ida B. Wells’ protest journalism that challenged lynching in the south.  Just as Wells told the truth about lynching, we must tell the truth about school policing and the false pretense of safety and public order. School policing does not prevent violence, it is a harbinger of it. It is the reason why many Black students do not feel safe at school and the means through which they are criminalized and denied the benefits of public education.
— Read on policefreeschools.org/resources/legacyoflynching/