Police Shootings

The first article seems to lean on the side of the civilians and this is clear to me just after reading the title and the first sentence. The article is named 776 People killed By Police So far in 2015, 161 of them Unarmed. This article states that the people who were killed were completely unarmed, meaning they didn’t have a gun or knife or any type of weapon that could hurt the officer. This article was not based off of race although it does give some statistics stating that blacks are killed at a higher rate than whites. This article focuses on how civilians are being killed by police yet they were not armed to hurt anyone. Shootings were the most common cause of death followed by Tasers being second most common cause of death. The database used to compile the number of deaths does not include cases like Sandra Bland’s, where she died in jail but her cause …show more content…
Their data also doesn’t include people like Paul Castaway who was holding a knife to his own throat and was still killed even though he was not threatening officers.
After reading the title of the second article named New Study Examines Police Killing of Unarmed Civilians; Considers Data on Race, Non- Lethal Force & Community Identification of Suspects I can already see that this article may possibly have more information because of its length and all of the factors incorporated. This article is very different from the first because it takes into account more factors than the first. This article argues that when police respond to calls from the public about an unarmed person, the officer does not use deadly force and if the person dies after police has made contact with them it is usually because they had other