Letters to the Editor
It is estimated that annually, police in the U.S. have 385,000,000 contacts with the public and make 11,205,833 arrests, in which 48,315 police officers are seriously injured and 990 people are killed by police. According to the Dolan Consulting Group (Richard R. Johnson, PhD), since 1971 police shootings have decreased at approximately 3.3 percent annually to historic lows.
Locally, here in Cheney officers responded to roughly 32,000 calls for service last year, and physical force was used in only 13 cases, with no deadly force being used. This is not unique to Cheney, as I have worked in fiv...
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