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TRIGGER WARNING: This episode contains graphic content, including violence, suicide and death which may shock, offend or upset.
In this episode, Mike discusses Tracking Injustice: A Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Data and Transparency Project and Carleton University's assertion of it being a "National Database of Deaths Caused by Police Use of Force." Is the data set limited, as the project's website claims, to "killings and deaths following intentional police use of force" such as"police shootings that resulted in death, and instances where a person died after being subjected to other types of weapons (e.g., tasers, batons) or physical interventions (e.g., punches, kicks, physical holds)"? Does the data accurately representonlyindividuals that "did die as a direct result of the police use of force"? Did the police kill 69 people in 2022 as the principal investigator on the project was quoted as saying in a CCLA press release and the media has since repeated? Or does this so called "National Database of Deaths Caused by Police Use of Force" include deaths that had little or nothing to do with police use of force? You be the judge.
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