U.S. police killed 1,129 people in 2017, but that’s not the full body count
Another piece of this analysis missing are those that are not killed, which is an important factor when considering instituting reforms. I am often struck by how different security and police forces act around the world, and in some cases, those countries are more dangerous. The United States needs to take a long hard look at how to reform and improve policing in America.Approximately 1,129 people were killed by the police in 2017, according to findings by Mapping Police Violence. In just 12 of these cases, or 1 percent of all police killings, officers were charged with a crime.
With President Donald Trump taunting his way into nuclear warfare and the flood of sexual misconduct allegations that has dominated the news cycle, police brutality seems to have slipped out of mainstream news and national coverage. But as Mapping Police Violence illustrates, the problem of police brutality continues to take lives, as the organization claims, in largely preventable ways.