A House Democrat said less than 2% of police officers who engage in misconduct are indicted. We’ve seen that data point before; it refers to officers charged in police shootings. But experts say there’s not enough data to draw clear conclusions.
In interviews Feb. 5 on CBS’"Face the Nation," four freshmen representatives debated how Congress should address crime and police accountability. Rep. Summer Lee, D-Pa. said that the subjects are intertwined.
Lee then mentioned the names of several people who died after police encounters, which provided a hint that by"misconduct" she meant people who were killed by police. But she did not directly define"misconduct."headlined:"Police officers are prosecuted for murder in less than 2 percent of fatal shootings."
"We can say what percentage of all fatal police use-of-force incidents result in prosecution, but we can’t say what percentage of criminal fatal police use-of-force incidents result in prosecution," Huff said."We just do not have good enough data to create an accurate denominator to answer the second question."Protesters gather on Jan.
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