- 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.
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:
https://archive.ph/Oy144
This is like asking the oil companies to pinky swear they are doing right by the environment.