BLACK PEOPLE KILLED IN AMERICA

It is very strange to me that the number of black people killed cumulatively and individually by police departments every year in America is not a defined statistical category maintained by either the Department of Justice or some other agency that is accessible to the public. Such vital information should not have to be independently and privately compiled from responses to information requests to 25 police departments, that was recently issued by the National Bar Association, in the wake of the Ferguson, Missouri, disturbances following the murder of Michael Brown. If such information were available, there would be no need for the National Bar Association's request. That it is not available is itself suspicious, if not sinister, and institutionally insidiously racist! Given the national fetish with record keeping, number-crunching, and endless numerical streams covering all kinds of minutiae, why this one glaring omission would remain vacant can only bespeak political calculation!