- In 2023, police in the U.S. Killed over 1,300 people, marking a steady increase in police killings, as reported by Mapping Police Violence.
- There were only 14 days without a police killing, and on average, a person was killed by law enforcement every 6.6 hours.
- While the number of people killed by gunfire and officers killed in the line of duty declined, this data highlights the need for significant changes in policing in the country.
Annually they kill more people than mass shooters and steal more than burglars though ‘asset forfeiture’, they also have no duty to protect you if bodily harm could possibly come to them. Weakest most scared people in America by a country mile. Getting rid of police would end more crime than the cops end.
That, and all the gun control restrictions constantly being floated are meaningless when the police have an exception carved out for themselves every. single. fucking. time.
If 10+ round magazines, full autos, SBR’s, AR-15’s, switchblades, etc., etc., etc. are supposed to be this big problem, I have never once had anyone be able to answer be constructively on why the police need these things when regular people don’t.
Because they don’t and it has become a gang.
I was one of those people that thought maybe it was good people in a bad system, but now I’m convinced too few actual good people want to go into policing to keep the corruption out.
I’m not sure how we fix it. Probably needs to be set up more like the military with civilian leadership and oversight.
Good people do want to go into policing, but the bad people don’t want them in their gang, because decent people are a threat to their way of operating and might land them in prison.
If a group of people is too rotten, then it just perpetuates itself. People that are too smart or have too many principles, won’t even get a chance of joining. People who have started on the job will soon be presented with a moral dilemma, if they make the wrong choice, then the rotten group will start bullying them to force them out.
If it gets to the point that acab is true, then a clean start is the only fast way. Hire outside mercenaries to temporarily take over police tasks and start a new police force from scratch, with better rules, regulations and indepedent oversight. And without allowing the old cops to rejoin, unless it’s in specialized technical roles.
officers killed in the line of duty declined
In other words – violence continues to drop while the pigs get more and more violent.
https://www.facilities.udel.edu/safety/4689/
Cops are 22nd most dangerous career in America. They don’t even cut it in the TOP 20. This according to the University of Delaware. Good thing we LITERALLY give them military hardware and equipment to use on the citizens.
- Logging workers
- Aircraft pilots and flight engineers
- Derrick operators in oil, gas, and mining
- Roofers
- Garbage collectors
- Ironworkers
- Delivery drivers
- Farmers
- Firefighting supervisors
- Power linemen
- Agricultural workers
- Crossing guards
- Crane operators
- Construction helpers
- Landscaping supervisors
- Highway maintenance workers
- Cement masons
- Small engine mechanics
- Supervisors of mechanics
- Heavy vehicle mechanics
- Grounds maintenance workers
- Police officers
- Maintenance workers
- Construction workers
- Mining machine operators
Delivery drivers
Confirm. Before the advent of the current doordash-uber-postmates fiasco, I worked delivery for four different restaurants. I went to neighborhoods where cops eating at our restaurant(s) flat out told me they won’t go. With a pocket full of cash, no backup, in my regular old not bulletproof personal vehicle.
I was strapped as fuck, of course, but still.
Cops are pussies.
And police are tied with grounds maintenance, and maintenance workers. But only one of the three gets military hardware. ><
The nation’s legal street gang.
We broke the record!! USA!!! USA!!!
(I am crying in the inside)
I feel you, and don’t have a good coping mechanism for this one, plus it’s hard as shit to not have an emotional take on it, hence the difference of the title in my community. https://lemmy.world/post/10842873
I’m sure it would be terribly difficult, but my first thought is that we need federal oversight of law enforcement.
Even legitimately tracking law enforcement federally is difficult and half ass’d, and always opposed by some of the worst criminals in our country the Police Unions (they misspell “organized crime ring” as “union”). There’s always bullshit like “voluntary compliance”, and failure to follow up on no compliance at all, it’s god-damed ridiculous.
Also this:
It’s not just the killings, the entire system is completely fucked up. Bail system, warrants, jails, plea deals, public defenders, judges, expert witnesses… absolutely everything is just wrong.
