The best available evidence shows that more than 1,500 people die every year as a result of law enforcement engagements. At that rate, law enforcement related deaths are neither unusual nor trivial. They constitute a major social problem. However, the public is poorly informed about the scope of this social problem for two basic reasons. First, official investigations of law enforcement-related deaths nearly always determine that those deaths were justifiable homicides. Second, news accountants of law enforcement-related deaths typically emphasize official law enforcement perspectives, while they vilify the victims and marginalize the perspectives of the victims' families
Andy Lee Roth, Mickey Huff. Censored 2015: The Top Censored Stories and Media Analysis of 2013-2014