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Re:Chicago Police Department shuts down its arrest API by chicagoeads on Thursday July 09, 2020 @05:23PM (#23785392)
HRDAG estimates that 1 in 3 Americans murdered by a stranger are killed by a police officer. https://granta.com/violence-in-blue/

In Chicago, the police union has attempted to destroy complaint records and uses an arbitration clause to minimize impact of discipline and to keep information about sustained misconduct complaints under wraps, including other police departments considering hiring an officer (https://projects.propublica.org/graphics/il-grievances).

(Full disclosure, I'm a co-author of the OP linked article and the article about CPD grievances.)

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Re:Chicago Police Department shuts down its arrest API by refurb on Thursday July 09, 2020 @07:47PM (#23786587)
Well that's certainly playing with statistics.

Most people are murdered by someone they know, so we're looking at a pretty small slice of all murders.

And that stat is for homicides, not murder. So it includes people lawfully killed.

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Re:Chicago Police Department shuts down its arrest API by BLKNSLVR on Thursday July 09, 2020 @10:24PM (#23787528)
> So it includes people lawfully killed

I would imagine that's part of the point.

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