Police are there to protect our communities, and many do a wonderful job. Yet police as a group kill more children each year than registered sex offenders do, all in the line of duty. Here are just some of the stories of children killed by police:

Children shot by police

Kenyon police kill 9-year-old girl in protest crackdown

In yet another example of how bullets often don’t end up where they are meant to go, police in Kenya shot and killed a little girl in the process of cracking down a post-election protest. Nine-year-old Stefanie Moraa was killed August 12 after being struck by a stray police bullet in the heart of Mathare. “She was just a girl, she was only playing” said her mother Damagrin Marubb. “She didn’t vote, she didn’t protest, why would they kill her?” (Wall Street Journal, 8-17-17, p. A16)