May 26, 2015
From 2003-2009 there were approximately 96 million arrests in this country. That’s 16 million every year of whom about 800 died in police custody. Sixty-one percent were classified as homicides, either at the hands of the police or others in custody. Of those, 42 percent were white, 32 percent African American, and 20 percent Hispanic. The numbers are very sketchy since some states don’t report deaths at the hands of policemen.
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