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That still seems pretty low, but I’m sure that not all 1200 were cops abusing their power.
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A car is probably 1,000x less likely to try to kill me because it got spooked or went on a power trip (unless it’s a Tesla, then maybe only half as likely).
That car also does useful stuff until then.
278,063,737 personal and commercial vehicles were registered to drivers in the U.S. in 2021.
And
In 2022, there were 708,001 full-time law enforcement officers employed in the United States
I’m too lazy to do the math but I think looking at the numbers of cars and police officers is relevant if you’re gonna compare death rates. While any person is more likely to be killed in a car accident than by a police officer, there a orders of magnitude more cars out there that we all interact with all the time. Is one out of every 700-ish cops killing somebody each year reasonable?
Is there a sense of whether the number of police killings is accurate?
https://www.statista.com/statistics/191694/number-of-law-enforcement-officers-in-the-us
https://www.forbes.com/advisor/car-insurance/car-ownership-statistics/
Is there a sense of whether the number of police killings is accurate?
In most cases the police have no obligation to report, so the reported numbers are going to be lower than reality.
We do not know how many people police kill in the US. Police have been allowed to ignore the part of the 1994 crime bill that obliged them to report everything. The DOJ simply will not look at the situation. So, police killings, go largely unknown. Patrick Hendry, the head of the NY police union, the largest one, was once interview in an industry rag. In this interview they asked about the reporting of police killings and he said that “most” do not get reported outside of the department who employed the officer(s) involved in the killings.
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-many-americans-the-police-kill-each-year/
This article discusses this issue however, if you start googling inquiries about “no one knows how many people police kill in the US”, or similar rephrasings of this inquiry, you will produce numerous sources discussing the matter. You will have to dig though.
Keep in mind when looking at data like this that we do not actually know how many people police kill. Despite the 1994 crime bill mandating the detailed reporting of every police killing to the feds no one has ever forced them to do it. What we are seeing are only the ones that ended up having an outside entity involved in the investigation (be it of the crime leading to the killing or of the killing it’s self).
Years ago, in an interview with a an industry rag Patrick Hendry, head of the NY police union, the largest of it’s kind, was asked about this and he answered that “most” killings never leave the department that employed the officer(s) who committed the homicide.
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-many-americans-the-police-kill-each-year/
Anyone know how many police officers were killed by people?
Do you also get to count police officers killed by police officers (like negligent car accidents)?
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Not enough.
Wow, what bootlickers downvoted you?
It total, since 2013, MPV has recorded 12,318 police killings in the US,over 5,000 more deaths than all US military personnel killed in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Yemen and other “war on terror” battlefields from October 2001 through October 2019, according to the Watson Institute at Brown University.
At what point do we categorise America as being in a civil war?
It’s a class war. Always has been.
Compare that to how many interactions with cops there were.
