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Tuesday, January 9th, 2024

2023 saw record killings by US police. Who is most affected?

Author:     Sam Levin
Source:     The Guardian (U.K.)
Publication Date:     Monday 8 January 2024 | 1000 EST
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Stephan:  

The police in the United States are dangerous. Particularly, if you are a person of color, you don’t want to get involved with them. As this report describes they kill more people than law enforcement in any other democracy in the world. Police and sheriffs are also the worst trained, least educated, law enforcement amongst all the democracies in the world. And although the murder rate is going down in the U.S., there is one exception, the murder rate of law enforcement; it averages three people a day. And because we cannot stop lying to ourselves about the reality of U.S. society nothing serious is being done about this.

People protest the death of Tyre Nichols in Memphis, Tennessee, on 28 January 2023. Credit: Scott Olson / Getty

Police in the US killed at least 1,232 people last year, making 2023 the deadliest year for homicides committed by law enforcement in more than a decade, according to newly released data.

Mapping Police Violence, a non-profit research group, catalogs deaths at the hands of police and last year recorded the highest number of killings since its national tracking began in 2013. The data suggests a systemic crisis and a remarkably consistent pattern, with an average of roughly three people killed by officers each day, with slight upticks in recent years.

The group recorded 30 more deaths in 2023 than the previous year, with 1,202 people killed in 2022; 1,148 in 2021; 1,160 in 2020; and 1,098 in 2019. The numbers include shooting victims, as well as people fatally shocked by a stun gun, beaten or restrained. The 2023 count is preliminary, and cases could be added as the database is updated.

High-profile 2023 cases included the fatal […]

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1 Comment

  1. sam crespi on Wednesday, January 10, 2024 at 2:01 pm

    The numbers may not be exactly the same, but it often seems to me that there are moments when these number are close to equal coming from both sides,.