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Officers Assaulted Of the 49,851 officers who were assaulted in 2013, 14,565 (29.2 percent) sustained injuries. 31.0 percent of the officers who were attacked with personal weapons (e.g., hands, fists, or feet) suffered injuries. 14.6 percent of the officers who were assaulted with knives or other cutting instruments were injured.
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- Felonious Assaults. In 2012 law enforcement agencies reported 52,901 officers assaulted in the line of duty. This number is low because only 64 percent of the agencies providing UCR data to the FBI actually submit assault data for law enforcement officers. However, from the data the FBI received, 10 percent of law enforcement officers were assaulted in the line of duty, and 28 percent of these assaults resulted in injuries.
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- With the exception of New Hampshire, all the New England States, as well as New Jersey and New York have statutes that make assaulting a police officer a higher penalty than an assault on other people. As Attachment 2 shows, New York appears to have the most stringent punishment, consisting of three to 15 years in prison and up to a $5,000 fine.
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- snip. The Guardian s statistics include deaths after the police use of a Taser, deaths caused by police vehicles and deaths following altercations in police custody, as well as those killed when officers open fire. They reveal that 29% of those killed by police, or 135 people, were black.n analysis of public records, local news reports and Guardian reporting found that 32% of black people killed by police in 2015 were unarmed, as were 25% of Hispanic and Latino people, compared with 15% of white people killed.
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Violent Crime Aggravated assaults accounted for the highest number of violent crimes reported to law enforcement at 62.4 percent. Robbery comprised 29.4 percent of violent crimes, forcible rape accounted for 6.9 percent, and murder accounted for 1.2 percent of estimated violent crimes in 2011.
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- Despite the impact of these incidents and the many efforts we have all. taken over the years to prevent them, last year saw an unprecedented spike in line-of-. duty deaths, totaling 177, and in particular the number of officers killed by felonious. assault, reaching 72 by the end of the year.
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- Somewhere in America, a woman is raped every 2 minutes, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. In 1995, 354,670 women were the victims of a rape or sexual assault. (NationalCrime Victimization Survey.
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US police shootings: How many die each year? At the same time the number of police officers has increased in the US. There are a quarter of a million more police officers working today than there were three decades ago. So when you consider the number of officers killed per 100,000, there has been a dramatic decrease. The annual per capita number of officers killed has dropped from 24 per 100,000 in the 10 years to 1980 to 7.3 per 100,000 in the 10 years to 2013 (the last year for which there is good data). This chimes with a bigger trend, which is a steady reduction in crime, including homicides.
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Among the thousands of fatal shootings at the hands of police since 2005, only 54 officers have been charged, a Post analysis found. Most were cleared or acquitted in the cases that have been resolved. Most of the police officers were white, most of the victims were black. In three-quarters of the reviewed cases, the race of the charged officer was white. Of those, two-thirds shot and killed a black person. In none of the cases did a black officer fatally shoot a white person.
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How many police officers are employed in the United States? Confidence votes 3. There are as of 2006, 683,396 full time state, city, university and college, metropolitan and non-metropolitan county, and other law enforcement officers in the United States.There are approx.pdate 760.000 state and local sworn officers 2008, 120,000 federal sworn officers 2008, 368,000 civilians in police agencies (state and local only) 2008. This is in excess of 1.1 million.
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US: Soaring Rates of Rape and Violence Against Women the study surveyed 73600 individuals in 41500 households among all violent crimes domestic violence rape and sexual assault showed the largest increases except for simple assault which increased by 3 percent the incidence of every other crime surveyed decreasedhe study surveyed 73600 individuals in 41500 households among all violent crimes domestic violence rape and sexual assault showed the largest increases except for simple assault which increased by 3 percent the incidence of every other crime surveyed decreased
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Behind the statistics on youth crime In fact, in suburban counties the number of youths arrested for the worst crimes -- homicide, rape, gun crimes -- remains extremely small. Five youths were arrested for murder in Baltimore County in 1996 (out of 54 homicide arrests), and 23 for rape (out of 123 rape arrests).
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What Americaâs police departments donât want you to know The true number of fatal police shootings is surely much higher, however, because many law enforcement agencies do not report to the FBI database. Attempts by journalists to compile more complete data by collating local news reports have resulted in estimates as high as 1,000 police killings a year. There is no way to know how many victims, like Brown, were unarmed. By contrast, there were no fatal police shootings in Great Britain last year.
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- According to the FBI’s Law Enforcement Officers Killed and Assaulted (LEOKA) data, the average age of all law enforcement officers killed accidentally in the LOD in 2009 was 35 years old, with an average of 9 years of service. 8.3. By comparison, 61 officers were shot and killed in 2010—an increase of nearly 25 percent from the prior year. According to data from the NLEOMF, for the prior 10 years, an average of nearly 57 officers died each year as a result of a firearms-related incident.
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Flood of lawsuits by LAPD officers costs the city millions Los Angeles police, for example, brought an average of about three times more lawsuits a year per officer than officers in Chicago and the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department.And there were about a third fewer lawsuits among Boston police.fficer-driven lawsuits have come under greater scrutiny in recent years as Los Angeles' financial problems have gotten worse. Elected officials and the LAPD's independent watchdog believe the department should be doing more to deter workplace conflict and avoid the expensive litigation.
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Police killed more than twice as many people as reported by US government The new estimate – an average of 928 people killed by police annually over eight recent years, compared to 383 in published FBI data – amounted to a more glaring admission than ever before of the government’s failure to track how many people police kill.
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- The chart shows data obtained from law enforcement around the world of the number of victims identified from 2008-2013 (which the report notes are estimates, due to a lack of reporting uniformity): 1  2008: 30,961. 2  2009: 49,105. 3  2010: 33,113. 4  2011: 42,291. 5  2012: 46,570. 6  2013: 44,758.
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The Officer Is Real; The Badge May Be an Impostor Estimates of how many of the city’s 35,000 officers use fake badges vary from several thousand to several hundred — roughly 25 officers are disciplined each year for using them — but the practice has become more sensitive since 9/11 and the heightened concern about police impersonation.
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True scale of police corruption claims revealed: Almost 100 officers a year are suspended over misconduct allegations As well as the 460 officers who have been suspended for alleged corruption in the UK since the start of 2009, 200 members of police staff were investigated on suspicion of corrupt practice in the same time period.t is not known how many of the 460 suspended officers were found to have acted corruptly, as most of the forces did not provide data on the outcome of their investigations. The Met said that 31 corrupt officers faced disciplinary action between 2009 and this year, while a further 22 resigned from the force.
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- new york december 18 2008 a new government report showing huge increases in the incidences of domestic violence rape and sexual assault over a two year period in the united states deserves immediate attention from lawmakers and the incoming administration human rights watch said todayhe study surveyed 73600 individuals in 41500 households among all violent crimes domestic violence rape and sexual assault showed the largest increases except for simple assault which increased by 3 percent the incidence of every other crime surveyed decreased
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- Enrollment Breakdown. 177 people accepted offers of admission to USF Morsani College of Medicine and enrolled as first-year medical students. Most of these students (75.7%) are residents of Florida. 177 people accepted offers of admission to USF Morsani College of Medicine and enrolled as first-year medical students.
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By the Numbers: How Many Cops Are There In the USA? The agencies generally cover between 70-80% of the US population, and, in the last 15 years for which data is available, included as many as 535,000 officers and as few as 441,000. Their criteria and methodology for which officers to include is also clear and consistent:
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Archives The 750,000 black bears of North America kill less than one person per year on the average, while 1 out of each 16,000 people commits murder each year across North America. *Most attacks by black bears attacks are defensive reactions to a person who is very close, which is an easy situation to avoid.
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- On average, one law enforcement officer is killed in the line of duty somewhere in the United States every 60 hours. Since the first known line-of-duty death in 1791, more than 20,000 U.S. law enforcement officers have made the ultimate sacrifice.
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Aggravated Assault A 10-year comparison of data from 2002 and 2011 showed that the rate of aggravated assaults in 2011 dropped 22.1 percent. Of the aggravated assault offenses in 2011 for which law enforcement agencies provided expanded data, 26.9 percent were committed with personal weapons such as hands, fists, or feet.
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Fallen officers: Separated by thousands of miles, united by similar dangers (CNN)The death of a decorated New Mexico police officer has brought the number of U.S. law enforcement officers shot to death this year to 30. Albuquerque Police officer Daniel Webster who was shot multiple times on the night of October 21, 2015.
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Another (Much Higher) Count Of Homicides By Police Scott Olson / Getty Images. Last week, we wrote about the fact that the U.S. government doesn’t track how many people are killed by the police. The FBI tracks “justifiable” police homicides, which it reports to be about 400 per year, but that tally is an undercount.pplying these percentages to the total count at Killed By Police would imply that officers acting in the line of duty have killed in the neighborhood of 1,250 to 1,350 people since May 1, 2013.