Data journalism busts speeding cops, wins Pulitzer
>The reporters found nearly 800 officers who reached speeds of 90-130 mph, many of them while off duty. The accidents caused by officers driving at high speeds had caused at least 320 crashes since 2004, killing or maiming 21 people.<p>That's such a horrifying statistic if true. Even at their peak, homicide offending rates in the US were at around 20 per 100,000; assault rates about 10 times as high: <a href="http://bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/htus8008.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/htus8008.pdf</a><p>Maybe I'm looking at this the wrong way, but in my mind I'm comparing 20 homicides per 100,000 citizens to to 21 people killed/maimed by a group that is orders of magnitude smaller: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miami_Police_Department" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miami_Police_Department</a><p>I think this is just another reminder that Bruce Schneier is right when he says we should be more worried about car accidents than terrorism.