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Every year in the US cops kill ~1000 people. Of those ~50% are unarmed or armed with something other than a firearm. ~18% are unarmed. Nationwide less than 100
by antoncohen 9y ago
Every year in the US cops kill ~1000 people. Of those ~50% are unarmed or armed with something other than a firearm. ~18% are unarmed.
Nationwide less than 100 cops are killed every year by some form of assault.
~25 people are executed via death penalty every year.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2015/jun/01/the-counted-police-killings-us-database https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2015/jun/...
https://www.odmp.org/search/year https://www.odmp.org/search/year
https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/executions-year https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/executions-year
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- c22 9y agoTo add a data point to your numbers, apparently police in the us shoot at 3 times as many people as they kill [https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/a3jjpa/nonfatal-police-shootings-data https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/a3jjpa/nonfatal-police-s...]