- cross-posted to:
- politicalexiles
- cross-posted to:
- politicalexiles
- In 2023, police in the U.S. Killed over 1,300 people, marking a steady increase in police killings, as reported by Mapping Police Violence.
- There were only 14 days without a police killing, and on average, a person was killed by law enforcement every 6.6 hours.
- While the number of people killed by gunfire and officers killed in the line of duty declined, this data highlights the need for significant changes in policing in the country.
I’m assuming most of the victims are unarmed. US police don’t like to shoot people that shoot back.
Probably not, but it’s kind of irrelevant either way. The real issue is the lack of functional de-escalation training and the incredibly low standards that need to be passed to be a cop (6 months or less of fuck all training, mostly only in offensive techniques.)
its also just the sheer number of problems police are expected to solve but all the training is how to shoot and handcuff people. The actual roles of police need to be split between several groups- you don’t need guns to write parking tickets, answer mental health calls and direct traffic. You don’t need patrol cars to have neighborhood peace keeping. Like the US needs to narrow what policing is and systematically reform the way policing is done.
I took a closer look at a long list of police shootings some time ago and it looked like 50/50 between cops just shooting someone in the back and shooting back at someone trying to kill them.