- 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. ><
Overall, crime is down. It feels like should lead to less extrajudicial killings.
When can we get some fucking police reform?
here’s the spoiler: meaningful legislation for literally anything will never come until the tug of war between right and left is settled.
Correction, until we have a tug from the right. There’s just the current tug between center-right dems and fascist, racist GOP. Both capitalist parties, thereby both requiring a fascist force.
The nation’s legal street gang.
Lemme make sure I get the facts straight:
- Police are killing people in increasing numbers
- Police are killing police in fewer numbers
- Police receive indoctrinating training which teaches them that they are a supreme individual entity while civilians are dangerous and the “other”
- Police are easily identified by their shield (badge) and their weapons, all of which are required as part of their duty within the police
- Police officers’ strongest weapon is their union
- Police frequently and harshly punish civilians for their “resistance”
Regarding the first two points: the most efficient way, in our federation, to avoid being killed or brutalized by the police is to join them?
TIL Police are the Borg.
