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US law enforcement kill over 1000 people every year, way more than any comparable country [1]. The raw data of incidents on Wikipedia has to be broken down by m
by jmyeet 9mo ago
US law enforcement kill over 1000 people every year, way more than any comparable country [1]. The raw data of incidents on Wikipedia has to be broken down by month [2]. And here's a chart showing the number has been going up basically every year for at least a decade [3].
What "historic lows" are you talking about?
[1]: https://www.prisonpolicy.org/graphs/policekillings_total.html https://www.prisonpolicy.org/graphs/policekillings_total.htm...
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_killings_by_law_enforcement_officers_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_killings_by_law_enfor...
[3]: https://www.consumershield.com/articles/how-many-people-are-killed-by-police-each-year https://www.consumershield.com/articles/how-many-people-are-...
- int_19h 9mo agoOP is saying that this is a historical low for US, not in the grand scheme of things.