From yesterday's WSJ...I Used to Sit for the National Anthem Too [Hidden Content] article by Jason L Riley..."A Justice Department report published in 2001 noted that between 1976 and 1998, the teen and adult population grew by 47 million people, and the number of police officers increased by more than 200,000, yet the number of people killed by police "did not generally rise" over this period. Moreover, a "growing percentage of felons killed by police are white, and a declining percentage are black." A separate Justice study released in 2011 also reported a decline in killings by police, between 1980 and 2008. And according to figures from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the rate at which police kill blacks has fallen by 70% since the late 1960s.An increase in press coverage of police shootings isn't the same thing as an increase in police shootings."