The Oakland Police Department is considering allowing more police to chase more suspects on property crimes, which have been on the increase in recent years.
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You can endlessly parse raw numbers that seem to tell an alarming story. When examined more carefully, they challenge the claim that police shootings are a national crisis.
When Dexter Reed died in a shootout with Chicago police on March 21, the incident was quickly grafted onto a narrative that began in 2014 after a policeman killed Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo. – namely, that the U.S. faces an epidemic of violence by unbridled cops who do not believe black lives matter. “Killing of Dexter Reed raises questions about Chicago police reform. ‘The message is, go in guns blazing,’” blared a headline in the Chicago Sun-Times.