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> In the US, the police kills more than 1000 citizens each year In case anyone is curious to see a source, the Washington Post attempts to collect data regardi
by areyousure 7y ago
> In the US, the police kills more than 1000 citizens each year
In case anyone is curious to see a source, the Washington Post attempts to collect data regarding police shootings: https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/four-years-in-a-row-police-nationwide-fatally-shoot-nearly-1000-people/2019/02/07/0cb3b098-020f-11e9-9122-82e98f91ee6f_story.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/four-years-in-...
- new_realist 7y agoTo put this in context, roughly 70 police were killed last year, and police made over ten million arrests. Your chance of being killed is roughly once in 10,000 arrests.
- chii 7y agoI wonder what the number are like if the data is filtered to person of colour only.