US police have already killed over 700 people in 2022, on track to break record

[renhai]

‘Without transformative changes, another 440 people will likely be killed by police before year ends,’ database founder says

US police officers have killed more people through the first seven months of the year than they have any other year on record, according to the Mapping Police Violence database.

Police officers have already killed over 700 people in 2022 and are on pace to kill more people this year than in any year since the project began tracking police killings in 2013.

The numbers are a sobering look at where the movements to reform or abolish police departments stand two years after the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis sparked a nationwide debate over the role of police in public safety.

Despite a push by activists and aligned politicians to cut police budgets, reform police training standards, and, in one high-profile case, replace the Minneapolis Police Department with a new Department of Public Safety, there have been only eight days so far this year on which US police officers have not killed anyone.

Mapping Police Violence’s data paints a clear picture of the issues plaguing American policing.

US police have already killed over 700 people in 2022, on track to break record

‘Without transformative changes, another 440 people will likely be killed by police before year ends,’ database founder says

www.independent.co.uk

 

[Menthol]

To be honest...

We can't just blame the policeman alone.

Because it's cause and effect.

Policemen did it, because of the pressure from society.

 

[925boy]

To be honest...

We can't just blame the policeman alone.

Because it's cause and effect.

Policemen did it, because of the pressure from society.

blame shifting!

 

[Foinikas]

And how many people have Chinese authorities executed?

 

[renhai]

And how many people have Chinese authorities executed?

I'm sorry to tell you this secret. the Chinese police don't have guns.

 

[renhai]

dunno about China-wide situation but a 1/4 of Shanghi force has been patrolling with military grade automatic firearms since that knife massacre in 2014

okay. we are sure that most Chinese policemen do not have guns.

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

 

[renhai]

US police three times as likely to use force against leftwing protesters, data finds

Law enforcement responses to more than 13,000 protests show a clear disparity in responses, new statistics show

www.google.co.jp

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

US police three times as likely to use force against leftwing protesters, data finds

Law enforcement responses to more than 13,000 protests show a clear disparity in responses, new statistics show

www.google.co.jp

Even if this were true the number of people actually killed by police during a 2022 protest (like maybe 1) is likely an insignificant percentage of the 700 people killed in 2022 listed in the title of the OP. So in terms of looking at the big picture this isn't much of a factor.

 

[fallstuff]

Police kill about 1000 people, and people kill about 100 police officers on average every year in the U.S.A

 

[AViet]

Police kill about 1000 people, and people kill about 109 people on average every year in the U.S.A

The intentional homicide rate of the US is 6.5 deaths (wiki source) per 100,000 individuals per year (compared to just 0.2 in Japan, 0.5 in China and 1.5 in Vietnam). With the US population around 300 millions, the number of homicide deaths would be much higher than 109.

As i understand, homicide equals to murder.

 

[retaxis]

Right wingers say its their right to own guns to protect themselves

but statistics say 80% of casualties from legally owned firearms are against their family or friends. Either by accident e.g. scared and shooting at figures in the dark at night, or children acquiring weapons and shooting them and mostly because people get angry and heated in arguments with their friends and family the most and end up shooting them and regretting it moments later. When you get really mad and see red, you almost black out and go a little crazy. If you had no weapons you would punch but if u did you would use it. Can't trust ordinary people like that.

Also forgot to mention that heavy drug use + guns is a bad thing altogether especially with the mental illness epidemic in America. Suicides are also too common.

 

[jhungary]

The intentional homicide rate of the US is 6.5 deaths (wiki source) per 100,000 individuals per year (compared to just 0.2 in Japan, 0.5 in China and 1.5 in Vietnam). With the US population around 300 millions, the number of homicide deaths would be much higher than 109.

As i understand, homicide equals to murder.

Homicide is NOT equal to murder.

Homicide is a manner of death that contribute to other people or persons. Homicide would included

All Degree of Murder
All Degree of Manslaughter
All Degree of Involuntary Manslaughter
All Degree of Vehicular Homicide
and all Justifiable Homicide.

Murder rate in US is actually quite low. Only around 12000 a year.

 

[DabbuSardar]

Usa should learn from china and have our police run away from people breaking laws..

https://twitter.com/x/status/1595586273976139777

 

[SecularNationalist]

To be honest...

We can't just blame the policeman alone.

Because it's cause and effect.

Policemen did it, because of the pressure from society.

Exactly and damn true.
US is a country with the highest no of sociopaths and psychopaths. The police have to deal with them daily.