And how many members of that family will EVER call the police to report anything short of a murder - if that - out of concern of being charged with it because they were convenient?

I'll throw in a relevant quote from this week's Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel article about the 20% decline in 911 calls over the year following news of a beating by off-duty officers: (http://www.jsonline.com/story/news/investigations/2016/09/29...)

"In the Jude study, researchers found data suggesting people withdraw from the system after an incident of police violence. Papachristos said the study shows that police violence and other misconduct hurts officers' ability to work with communities and may result in a deepening of so-called "legal cynicism" — the idea that police are either unable or unwilling to help — within communities. That dynamic can perpetuate crime and distrust."

The Harvard study in question: "Police Violence and Citizen Crime Reporting in the Black Community" https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3114813-Jude-911-Cal...

edit: rearranging URLs