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Donald Trump campaigned Tuesday in Michigan, arguing there is a “crime wave” going on at levels “nobody has ever seen before,” but Federal Bureau of Investigation data shows the national violent crime rate dropped in the two years after he left the WH

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The FBI has no idea how many hate crimes happen in America each year

By J. Richard Cohen

 

Our national reports vastly underestimate the problem

 

According to the FBI’s most recent annual hate crime report, which is based on voluntary reporting by law enforcement agencies across the country, there were 5,928 hate crimes in 2013. In South Carolina, the FBI report says, there were 51. Those numbers vastly underestimate the problem, according to the Department of Justice’s Bureau of Statistics. A comprehensive analysis in 2013 showed that about 260,000 people are victimized each year by hate crime. The statistics bureau’s estimate is based on the National Crime Victimization Survey, the nation’s primary source of information on criminal victimization.

 

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John Crawford’s “concerned citizen” admits he lied

 

John Crawford is dead because ONE paranoid white man and his wife decided he was a threat to public safety and called 911.  The story he originally gave police is falling apart because — SURPRISE! —- there are security cameras, so now he’s changed his tune.

 

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Source: soletstalkabout.com

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Death by Law Enforcement: What the data tells us – and what it doesn’t

 

“When a police officer kills someone while trying to stop a crime or make an arrest, government agencies classify the death as a legal intervention. The death of Mike Brown, the 18-year-old and unarmed teenager killed by a police officer earlier this month in Ferguson, Missouri will likely be classified under this term when it comes time to report the circumstances of his death to the national databases that track such information.”

 

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Source: sunlightfoundation.com

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Nobody Knows How Many Americans The Police Kill Each Year

I have to repeat this because it’s TOTALLY FUCKING INSANE: nobody knows how many people the police kill each year

Source: fivethirtyeight.com

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Witness To Michael Brown’s Shooting Opens Up: He Was ‘Shot Like An Animal’ [VIDEO]

 

Just days before he was supposed to head to college, 18-year-old Michael Brown was shot by a police officer in his hometown of Ferguson, Missouri.

 

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Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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Witness to shooting of unarmed Michael Brown speaks [VIDEO]

Friend was with unarmed Michael Brown when the 18-year-old was fatally shot multiple times by a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri
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Lives in limbo: A guide to who’s waiting for immigration reform

 

Immigration policy is leading to broken families, children in crisis and border deaths.

 

Since border security has increased, deaths of (im)migrants and refugees has escalated.

 

The data: This year, an average of 31,410 captives were held daily in U.S. detention facilities. In 2012, 478,000 foreign nationals were detained — an all-time high. Officially, 2013 saw the second-highest number of migrant remains found on the U.S.-Mexico border.

 

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Source: www.washingtonpost.com