For cops who kill, special Supreme Court protection

Re:For cops who kill, special Supreme Court protection by function_seven on Friday May 08, 2020 @12:23PM (#23116492)

I went looking for data to refute this, because it didn't seem right to me. But, looks like you're correct here.

According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics [0], among all state-level prisoners, 14.3% of them are in for murder, and 13.1% are in for rape. That's 27.4% for the combination, or about 350,000 inmates. 106 per 100,000.

If you add in Federal prisoners, the inmate count goes to ~370,000, or about 112/100k

[0] https://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/p18.pdf (PDF, see table 13, page 21.)

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Re:For cops who kill, special Supreme Court protection by deathgrips on Friday May 08, 2020 @08:18PM (#23120970)

Thanks for contributing the stats! I appreciate it.

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Re:For cops who kill, special Supreme Court protection by edmundsauto on Friday May 08, 2020 @02:23PM (#23117834)

Can people be counted in both categories?

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Re:For cops who kill, special Supreme Court protection by function_seven on Friday May 08, 2020 @02:53PM (#23118123)

No. Those stats are exclusive counts. For the most serious offense only. So inmates who raped and murdered their victim are tallied under the “murder” column.

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