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Today, US police are heavily militarised, and fatal police violence disproportionately affects Black, Indigenous, and Hispanic people. Police are trained that any interaction can turn deadly and that they should react as such.
- Funding The Police Versus Redirecting Funding
- ‘Trying to Transform, Reform and Reimagine’ Policing in California
- Re-Evaluating The Policies That Shield Officers
For a period after Floyd’s killing, lawmakers vowed to cut police funding in many cities. But many of those budgets wererestored or increasedby the end of 2021. That happened even as the national rate of police killings overall, but especially of Black Americans, increased, according to The Washington Post’s data. “They’re turning these encounters ...
Mike Gipson views the issue from two perspectives: as a former police officer in Maywood, California, and now as a longtime state Assembly member. From both sides, Gipson said, he has been bothered. “It was troubling back in 1992, when I wore a police uniform and we viewed a videotape of motorist Rodney King and the abuse this man went through,” Gi...
Many officer-involved cases are settled before they make it to court, which does not help the overall mission of stopping the violence against Black people, civil rights lawyer Daryl K. Washington of Dallas said. Taking the cases to trial, Washington said, would expose corruption and force “these police departments to have to change their hiring pr...
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May 27, 2023 · In a 2021 study of emergency room data from hospitals in five states, researchers found a correlation between police killings of unarmed Black people and a rise in the number of...
Sep 30, 2021 · Police killings in America have been undercounted by more than half over the past four decades, according to a new study that raises pointed questions about racial bias among medical examiners...
May 29, 2020 · Today, live streaming, tweets and Facebook posts have blasted the incidents of police brutality, beyond the black community and into the mainstream media.
Aug 6, 2022 · More than two years after millions of Americans took to the streets following the murder of George Floyd, familiar stories about police violence persist. By the numbers, 2021 was the deadliest for police shootings since The Washington Post began tracking them in 2015. The database Mapping Police Violence found similar results.
Jun 3, 2020 · About a quarter of police officers (26%) said relations between police and black people in their community were “only fair,” while nearly one-in-five (18%) said they were “poor” – with black officers far more likely than others to say so.
