The content of this Reuters article by Andrew Cawthorne and Diego Ore was about an NGO’s claim that one police officer a day is being killed in Venezuela. On Reuters main page (see image below) the headline accurately reflected its content. However, directly linking to the article leads to a needlessly confusing headline that reads “In violent Venezuela, police killings surge to almost one a day”. Police aren’t killing one person a day according to the NGO – a stat that may well approximate the truth in the USA. If the word “killings” were replaced with “deaths” the second headline it would be crystal clear and accurately reflect the content; or Reuters could simply use the headline from its main page.
I’d take any Venezuelan NGO’s data with a grain of salt, but it certainly seems plausible that cops are being killed in Venezuela in numbers that would never be tolerated in USA or other places where cops are given a green light to shoot first and make outrageous excuses later.
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