police shooting stats?

[kelley]

At 12:35 PM 5/19/00 -0500, Kendall Clark wrote:
>All,
>
>I'm working on an article called "Demythologizing the Police: Moving
>Beyond the Cult of the Dead Cop." I've been doing some research and
>found, thanks to this list, some great BLS stats about the fatality
>rates for police.
>
>What I need now, and have had some difficulty finding, is good data on
>how often, how many citizens are killed, shot, assaulted by police
>nationally.
>
>Does anyone have a good resource for that kind of thing?
>
>Thanks,
>Kendall Clark

amnesty international on NYC police brutality which does a good job of 
examining in terms of political regimes and internal problems in the NYPD

http://www.amnesty.it/AIlibtop/1996/AMR/25103696.htm

type in the phrase search  statistics on police brutality in 
www.metacrawler.com  or  in quotes at altavista.com
or a www.google.com and you'll come up with more refs and sources that'll 
get you a good working bib.

kelley