Injustice Everywhere is a site that reports on crimes committed by those whose job it is to uphold law. The site’s http://twitter.com/InjusticeNews is updated constantly with a frightening number of reports of misconduct from around the USA.
Extending my projections out to a year’s worth of data based on what we’ve seen in the last three months I’ve estimated that:
717.7 per 100,000 police officers will be in the news for an alleged act of misconduct this year.
In other words:
1 out of every 139 police officers in the US will be implicated in an act of misconduct or criminality in the news. (not counting those that never get printed in the press).
Violent Crime:
- 1 out of every 254 police officers will be accused of a violent crime.*
- 1 out of every 213 citizens will be accused of a violent crime.
Homicide
- 1 out of every 1,549 police officers will be accused of murder, manslaughter, homicide, or causing a fatality unnecessarily in an act of assault or brutality.
- 1 out of every 17,857 citizens will be accused of homicide, manslaughter, murder, or other act that unnecessarily takes a life.
Sexual Assault
- 1 out of every 944 police officer will be accused of sexual assault or sexually-related criminal acts.
- 1 out of every 1,177 citizens will be accused of sexual assault or a sexually-related criminal act.
Remember, though, that these numbers are based only on what makes it into the mainstream media which means it’s highly likely that these numbers are significantly less than the actual misconduct incident rate. Meanwhile, the FBI stats I used for comparisons are allegations reported to police departments across the US.
