License to kill: US police killed over 1,200 people in 2023
License to kill: US police killed over 1,200 people in 2023
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License to kill: US police killed over 1,200 people in 2023
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what number would be acceptable?
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1:1 with police actually interceding in capital crimes instead of hiding like scared children?
See Uvalde and Parkland.
https://www.texastribune.org/2022/06/20/uvalde-police-shooting-response-records/
https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/29/us/scot-peterson-parkland-shooting-trial-thursday/index.html
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Doesn't include lives unnecessarily affected or people wounded though.. so not the full story I'd say, just the extremes which are still bad.
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Context matters, though. Having watched enough police body cam videos where people just start shooting at police for standard traffic stops, it's no wonder why there's a "kill or be killed" attitude with every American police interaction.
Of course, there are always innocent victims, which is tragic no matter the situation.
But I think there's a large majority of people who are killed by police as either suicide by cop or because they initiated deadly force first.
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That's way lower than I expected.
Well, these are only the ones reported...