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Department of Justice Releases Arrest-Related Death Statistics
Loaded on Feb. 15, 2010
by Matthew Clarke
published in Prison Legal News
February, 2010, page 30
by Matt Clarke
Filed under:
Statistics/Trends,
Accidents,
Police--Excessive Force,
Mental Health,
Suicides.
Location:
United States of America.
The Bureau of Justice Statistics recently released statistics on state and local law enforcement arrest-related deaths for the years 2003 to 2006. Although Georgia, Montana and Maryland failed to respond to the survey and Nevada and Wyoming only provided information for one year, the statistics showed that ...
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