Post by Admin on Nov 2, 2023 19:57:39 GMT -6
Police killings of any sort account for nearly 5% of all homicides, with at least 1,192 people killed by law enforcement in 2022.
In the US, an estimated one in 20 gun homicides are committed by police, as law enforcement killings have failed to decrease despite years of nationwide protests.
Sister-in-law Fiona Paez holds a photograph of Manuel Paez Terán, during a family news conference in Decatur, Georgia, on 6 February.
‘Sadness in the whole forest’: family of Cop City activist killed by police seeks answers
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Law enforcement officers killed at least 1,192 people in 2022, the highest number recorded in a decade, according to Mapping Police Violence, a prominent non-profit database of police killings. More than 1,100 people were killed by the police in both 2020 and 2021. The vast majority of these deaths were police shootings.
There were more than 25,000 total homicides in the US in 2020 and 26,000 in 2021, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). National data for 2022 is not yet available.
Police shooting deaths represented 5% of all gun homicides in 2020 and 2021, and total police killings represented nearly 5% of all homicides, according to the best available public data.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/feb/15/us-homicides-committed-by-police-gun-violence
In the US, an estimated one in 20 gun homicides are committed by police, as law enforcement killings have failed to decrease despite years of nationwide protests.
Sister-in-law Fiona Paez holds a photograph of Manuel Paez Terán, during a family news conference in Decatur, Georgia, on 6 February.
‘Sadness in the whole forest’: family of Cop City activist killed by police seeks answers
Read more
Law enforcement officers killed at least 1,192 people in 2022, the highest number recorded in a decade, according to Mapping Police Violence, a prominent non-profit database of police killings. More than 1,100 people were killed by the police in both 2020 and 2021. The vast majority of these deaths were police shootings.
There were more than 25,000 total homicides in the US in 2020 and 26,000 in 2021, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). National data for 2022 is not yet available.
Police shooting deaths represented 5% of all gun homicides in 2020 and 2021, and total police killings represented nearly 5% of all homicides, according to the best available public data.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/feb/15/us-homicides-committed-by-police-gun-violence