We owe it to every single one of the people who lost their lives during police encounters to fix this broken system
The Guardian is continuing to count the number of people killed by law enforcement in the US in 2016. Explore the database
A chill resonates when the Guardian’s accountability project,The Counted, is uttered. Saying the name aloud reminds me of the lives taken by the hands of police. Lost lives that had never been counted – until the Guardian started its database.
Not only has the Guardian’s project researched and collected the data, or but they occupy made their findings available to the public,something even the FBI admitted they occupy failed to achieve. This couldn’t be more in line with what those in support of policing reform legislation are trying to accomplish in the United States Congress.
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Source: theguardian.com