Not sure I agree with the premise behind this map. The title says "Mapping Police Violence" and then "Police killed 1,099 people in 2019", which to me implies, that it shows cases where police killed that many innocent people/killed without any real reason. Then it also goes to say that "There is no accountability" and "99% of killings by police from 2013-2019 have not resulted in officers being charged with a crime" which further underlines that these killings were something that the officers should be charged/convicted for.
And yet when I was clicking through the cases most of them seemed to be armed suspects that were shooting at other people and/or at the officers arriving at the scene. In which case I don't see how shooting at the suspect should be condemned in any way.
Maybe I'm missing something here? I'm all in for charging and convicting unlawful use of violence and firearms by the police but this website seems a bit misleading to me because it misrepresents the scope of the problem. It would be much more useful to prove its point if it only showed cases where the suspect was not armed and dangerous.
And yet when I was clicking through the cases most of them seemed to be armed suspects that were shooting at other people and/or at the officers arriving at the scene. In which case I don't see how shooting at the suspect should be condemned in any way.
Maybe I'm missing something here? I'm all in for charging and convicting unlawful use of violence and firearms by the police but this website seems a bit misleading to me because it misrepresents the scope of the problem. It would be much more useful to prove its point if it only showed cases where the suspect was not armed and dangerous.