More Americans Killed By Police Than By Terrorists: With Crime Down, Why Is Police Aggression Up?
We're safer than ever. So why are we seeing an ever increasing militarization of policing?
March 20, 2014
アメリカでは、２０１２年だけで５８７人が警官に殺されており、１０年間で５０００人で、テロの被害で殺されたひとより多い人数なんだ、そうである。
最近では、携帯のカメラなんかで証拠が残っていうのだが、そうしたを勝手に没収してしまう、場合も多いのだそうである。
We're safer than ever. So why are we seeing an ever increasing militarization of policing?
March 20, 2014
The numbers are eye opening. The Justice Department, which keeps all kinds of statistics on violent crime, does not tally up individuals killed annually by police. But by combing public news reports and other sources, the Justice Policy Institute has estimated that police officers in the U.S. killed 587 people in 2012 alone. Over the course of a decade, they’ve tallied more than 5,000 people in the U.S. during that period―far more than the number of people who lost their lives in acts officially classified as terrorism in roughly the same span.
The many instances of deadly police violence captured on video give a visceral reality to these statistics. They show police beating and sometimes needlessly shooting citizens―even those with their hands up or armed only with a knife or stick while standing too far from responding officers to pose a threat.
In some jurisdictions, police have responded to these damaging videos by routinely confiscating bystanders’ cell phones and threatening witnesses with arrest, even though federal courts have consistently held that citizens have a right to photograph and videotape officers engaged in police actions.
アメリカでは、２０１２年だけで５８７人が警官に殺されており、１０年間で５０００人で、テロの被害で殺されたひとより多い人数なんだ、そうである。
最近では、携帯のカメラなんかで証拠が残っていうのだが、そうしたを勝手に没収してしまう、場合も多いのだそうである。
