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To: Mac Con Ulaidh who wrote (4669)	4/30/2001 5:06:24 PM
From: Win Smith	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6089

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.