'It never stops': killings by US police reach record high in 2022

[ItsjustMe]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jan/06/us-police-killings-record-number-2022

Law enforcement killed at least 1,176 people or about 100 people a month last year, making it the deadliest for police violence

US law enforcement killed at least 1,176 people in 2022, making it the deadliest year on record for police violence since experts first started tracking the killings, a new data analysis reveals.

Police across the country killed an average of more than three people a day, or nearly 100 people every month last year according to Mapping Police Violence. The non-profit research group maintains a database of reported deaths at the hands of law enforcement, including people fatally shot, beaten, restrained and Tasered.

The preliminary 2022 total – a possible undercount as more cases are catalogued – marks 31 additional fatalities than the year before. In 2021, police killed 1,145 people; 1,152 in 2020; 1,097 in 2019; 1,140 in 2018; and 1,089 in 2017. The earliest data goes back to 2013, when advocates began counting these fatal incidents. A database run by the Washington Post, which tracks fatal shootings by police, also shows 2022 as a year with record killings.

[tulipsandroses]

1. They still don't have to face any consequences, why would they change?

I bet many of those are unnecessary.

[SoCalDavidS]

3. That's The Way America's "justice" System Rolls

No accountability for those Above The Law.

[CloudWatcher]

5. Unnecessary?!

Well the UK had 3. In all of 2019. https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/police-killings-by-country

So yeah, I'll assert the majority of them are unnecessary.

[RockRaven]

2. As far as I can tell from the guardian article, that's just the number for lethal force (shooting).

Cops also kill people in traffic collisions, both the pursued and bystanders.

[EarthFirst]

4. Well with qualified immunity and the taxpayers picking up the civil liabilities...

…anyone surprised?