Police in the US Kill Citizens at Over 70 Times the Rate of Other First-World Nations

[Judi Lynn]

Police in the US Kill Citizens at Over 70 Times the Rate of Other First-World Nations

By Matt Agorist on January 8, 2015


In case you’ve been under a rock lately, it is becoming quite clear that police in the US can and will kill people, even unarmed people, even on video, and do so with impunity.

The tallying methods, or rather lack thereof, used by both the FBI and individual police departments to count the amount of people killed by police, have been shown to be staggeringly inaccurate.

However, this inability of the government to count the number of people it kills, has been met with multiple alternative means of calculating just how deadly the state actually is.

One of these citizen run databases, is the website www.killedbypolice.com. The site is basically a spreadsheet that lists every person killed by cops in the years 2013 and 2014. In addition to naming those killed, it also provides a link to media reports for each of the killings, age, sex and race if available.

The tally for 2014? 1,100 people killed by those sworn to protect. That is an average of three people a day.

More:
http://thefreethoughtproject.com/police-kill-citizens-70-times-rate-first-world-nations/

[truedelphi]

1. I just found out that in Calif. how the psychology tests that police-wanna-be's take will

Show whether an individual scores high or low on empathy and compassion.

And if you score in the higher ranges for sympathy and compassion, you will not be hired to be a police officer!

This job rejection happened to a cousin of a friend of mine - who had not only been accepted by the US Marines, but had served as a Marine.

But he was "too compassionate" to be a cop!

Then we civilians wonder why the cops are all "shoot first, ask questions later."

But it is right there in how the testing is utilized by the police departments.

[think]

2. Sadly America really needs to get a grip on reality in light of the statistics /nt

[Doctor_J]

3. Part of the blame for this has to lie with the NRA and our stupid gun culture

Police would shoot far less often if they didn't have to worry than anyone - literally - could be ready to shoot at them.

[MisterP]

9. ayup, the gun industry likes to feed both sides--"you HAVE to shoot to kill: everyone's out to get

you!" "you HAVE to be armed in case Obama unleashes NWO stormtroopers and hip-hop-influenced white genocide: everyone's out to get you!"

[Baitball Blogger]

4. Since no one keeps a running tally

it might actually be higher.

[FiveGoodMen]

5. It's really something to grow up thinking you live in one of the best countries

only to find that, in many ways, we are one of the worst.

[glinda]

6. Legal thugs. Not all but quite a few it appears.

[enough]

7. This is evidence that the word "citizen" no longer has meaning in our country.

One of the reasons we still think of ourselves as " citizens" is that we or someone we know has not yet been murdered by a police officer. When it does happen, that "officer" will be fully justified in the eyes of the "law," no matter what the circumstances.

[ncjustice80]

8. I have long advocated for unarmed police because of this.

No guns. No vests. Just hand cuffs and pepper spray. If they cant handle that than fuck em!

[newthinking]

10. Do we need to sanction our own country?

[dixiegrrrrl]

11. Judy, that link to police kill record sends me to another site

http://chanceprose.com/?p=355