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Originally Posted by puckluck2
Just did some research and only 93 officers have been charged since 96...that's like what, 5 officers a year? Doesn't seem like much considering the size of their police force and the amount of people they're policing.
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From Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special...tigations_Unit
Total number of investigations = 3,332
Total number or cases where charges have been laid = 82 (total number of officers charged is 93). Keep in mind that any time there is a death and an officer is present, it automatically invokes an SIU investigation.
That means out of the number of cases investigated, charges are only laid 2.5% of the time.
The data is incomplete though as the years from 1990 to 1996 are not included.