{"id":2830,"date":"2015-07-07T21:31:14","date_gmt":"2015-07-07T21:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fenello.com\/blog\/?p=2830"},"modified":"2015-07-07T21:31:14","modified_gmt":"2015-07-07T21:31:14","slug":"why-the-us-cant-keep-track-of-people-killed-by-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fenello.com\/oldnews\/occupythecourts\/?p=2830","title":{"rendered":"why the US can&#8217;t keep track of people killed by police"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mceItemEmbedly\" style=\"max-width:600px;\" data-ajax=\"{'url':'http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/mar\/18\/police-killings-government-data-count','width':null,'words':null,'height':null,'embed':'&lt;div class=\\&quot;embedly\\&quot; style=\\&quot;\\&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=\\&quot;http:\/\/media.guim.co.uk\/124133816e04ab8d0070a69fcb1e55d48ee863da\/0_92_3175_1906\/2000.jpg\\&quot; class=\\&quot;thumb embedly-thumbnail-small\\&quot; \/&gt;&lt;a class=\\'embedly-title\\' target=\\'_blank\\' href=\\'http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/mar\/18\/police-killings-government-data-count\\'&gt;The uncounted: why the US can\\'t keep track of people killed by police&lt;\/a&gt;A year ago, in a bureaucratic shift that went unremarked in the somnolent days before Michael Brown was shot dead in Ferguson, Missouri, the US government admitted a disturbing failure. The top crime-data experts in Washington had determined that they could not properly count how many Americans die each year at the hands of police.&lt;div class=\\&quot;embedly-clear\\&quot;&gt;&lt;\/div&gt;&lt;span class=\\&quot;embedly-powered\\&quot; style=\\&quot;float:right;display:block\\&quot;&gt;&lt;a target=\\&quot;_blank\\&quot; href=\\&quot;http:\/\/embed.ly\/code?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Fus-news%2F2015%2Fmar%2F18%2Fpolice-killings-government-data-count\\&quot; title=\\&quot;Powered by Embedly\\&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=\\&quot;http:\/\/static.embed.ly\/images\/logos\/embedly-powered-small-light.png\\&quot; alt=\\&quot;Embedly Powered\\&quot; \/&gt;&lt;\/a&gt;&lt;\/span&gt;&lt;div class=\\&quot;media-attribution\\&quot;&gt;&lt;span&gt;via &lt;\/span&gt;&lt;a href=\\&quot;http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\\&quot; class=\\&quot;media-attribution-link\\&quot; target=\\&quot;_blank\\&quot;&gt;the Guardian&lt;\/a&gt;&lt;\/span&gt;&lt;\/div&gt;&lt;div class=\\&quot;embedly-clear\\&quot;&gt;&lt;\/div&gt;&lt;\/div&gt;'}\">\n<div class=\"embedly\" style=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/media.guim.co.uk\/124133816e04ab8d0070a69fcb1e55d48ee863da\/0_92_3175_1906\/2000.jpg\" class=\"thumb embedly-thumbnail-small\" \/><a class='embedly-title' target='_blank' href='http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/mar\/18\/police-killings-government-data-count'>The uncounted: why the US can&#8217;t keep track of people killed by police<\/a>A year ago, in a bureaucratic shift that went unremarked in the somnolent days before Michael Brown was shot dead in Ferguson, Missouri, the US government admitted a disturbing failure. The top crime-data experts in Washington had determined that they could not properly count how many Americans die each year at the hands of police.<\/p>\n<div class=\"embedly-clear\"><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"embedly-powered\" style=\"float:right;display:block\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/embed.ly\/code?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Fus-news%2F2015%2Fmar%2F18%2Fpolice-killings-government-data-count\" title=\"Powered by Embedly\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.embed.ly\/images\/logos\/embedly-powered-small-light.png\" alt=\"Embedly Powered\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"media-attribution\"><span>via <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\" class=\"media-attribution-link\" target=\"_blank\">the Guardian<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"embedly-clear\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The uncounted: why the US can&#8217;t keep track of people killed by policeA year ago, in a bureaucratic shift that went unremarked in the somnolent days before Michael Brown was shot dead in Ferguson, Missouri, the US government admitted a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/fenello.com\/oldnews\/occupythecourts\/?p=2830\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-occupythecourts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fenello.com\/oldnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fenello.com\/oldnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fenello.com\/oldnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fenello.com\/oldnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fenello.com\/oldnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2830"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fenello.com\/oldnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2831,"href":"https:\/\/fenello.com\/oldnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2830\/revisions\/2831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fenello.com\/oldnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fenello.com\/oldnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fenello.com\/oldnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}