Police Department Race and Ethnicity Demographic Data
View demographic data showing representation of racial and ethnic minorities in each police department.
August 27, 2015 • 2/3: DCPoliceOfficers (David Kidd) 3/3: DCPoliceOfficers (David Kidd) Despite efforts to become more diverse, minorities remain underrepresented to varying degrees in the vast majority of larger police departments throughout the country. Particularly in jurisdictions experiencing rapid demographic shifts, police largely do not reflect the racial and ethnic makeup of their communities.
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Governing analyzed police personnel data for 269 departments serving as primary local law enforcement agencies for areas with populations exceeding 100,000. Most were city departments, although some county police departments and metropolitan area agencies were also included. Data was obtained from the 2013 Law Enforcement Management and Administrative
Author of the article: Larry Elder
Publishing date: May 02, 2021  â¢Â 15 hours ago  â¢Â 3 minute read  â¢Â U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters wears a face mask as she talks to other members of congress while waiting in her seat before U.S. President Joe Biden arrives to deliver his first address to a joint session of Congress at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on April 28, 2021. Photo by JONATHAN ERNST/POOL /AFP via Getty Images
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In June 2018, Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., publicly exhorted her supporters to harass cabinet members of the Trump administration.
At an outdoor rally in Los Angeles, Waters, with microphone in hand and amplifiers nearby, shouted: âLetâs make sure we show up wherever we have to show up. And if you see anybody from that Cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd. And you push back on them. And you tell them theyâre not welcome a
Ryan McMahon proposes $600,000 for deputy body cams; Sheriff asked for more
Updated May 03, 2021;
Posted May 03, 2021
After a Syracuse.com story reported Onondaga County Sheriff Office had no body cameras and no plans for them, Sheriff Gene Conway called a news conference to say he would welcome the cameras if the county provides the money. Here, Conway holds up the syracuse.com article to make his point on Friday, April 23, 2021.Katrina Tulloch
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Syracuse, N.Y. – Onondaga County Executive Ryan McMahon today said he will ask legislators to approve spending $606,000 this year to outfit sheriff’s road deputies with body cameras, the first step in a 5-year program estimated to cost about $3 million.
Letter: Some data on police shootings
By David Ryden
EDITOR S NOTE: The Washington Post s police shootings database has data from 2015-present. Access it at washingtonpost.com/graphics/investigations/police-shootings-database.
Richard Kamischke ( All lives matter argument misses the point entirely, April 28) is quick to condemn others for “how little they understand racism in America,” but he does little to advance that cause.
I will take Mr. Kamischke at his word when he “invites [us] to observe who is getting killed weekly, sometimes daily, by police,” since the clear implication is that we’re facing an epidemic of racially motivated police killings of Black people.
Ben Shapiro: The circular logic of systemic racism
Systemic racism is a fundamentalist religious belief. It posits original sin; it posits saints and prophets; it posits its own malevolent god of the gaps.
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Syndicated columnist Ben Shapiro.
Last month, ex-police officer Derek Chauvin was convicted of second-degree murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter. The evidence on the murder charges was weak; the evidence on manslaughter was significantly stronger. Still, the jury took only 10 hours and zero questions to come to its conclusion: guilty on all counts.
In and of itself, the Chauvin case never should have been a national news story. After all, an average of three suspects are shot by police every day in the United States, and thousands of homicides that have nothing whatsoever to do with the police take place in the United States every year. Theoretically, national news stories should be indicative of profound nat