Choosie, on a somewhat more disturbing note, there was this bit of Meesian logic buried in the following article from the Sunday NYT.
When the Police Shoot, Who's Counting? nytimes.com
The Bureau of Justice Statistics, the statistical arm of the Justice Department, has
tried to fill in some of the blanks on police behavior, issuing a number of surveys and
reports on the topic. Most recently, the bureau quietly released a report, "Policing
and Homicide, 1976- 1998." But the report itself underscores the continued
problems in knowing what is really happening.
On its cover, for example, the report refers to all the victims of police shootings as
"felons justifiably killed by police," a categorization that Samuel Walker, a professor
of criminal justice at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, termed "deeply offensive
and legally incorrect." In fact, a Justice Department official said the bureau was so
embarrassed by the term, and the lack of distinction between justifiable police
shootings and murders, that it did not send out its usual promotional material
announcing the report.
Well, they must have been suspects if they got shot. |
