Police Killed More Americans Last Year Than Mass Shooters

Some 590 Americans were killed in mass shootings last year, that figure almost pales in comparison to the number of Americans subjected to gun violence by police.

Ebony Slaughter Johnson
作者 Ebony Slaughter Johnson
Newly minted NYPD Officers attend the New York City Police Graduation Ceremony for the Graduating Class of December 2017 held at the Beacon Theater on December 28, 2017 in New York City. (Photo: Mpi43/MediaPunch/IPX)

This spring, an estimated 800,000 Americans gathered in Washington, DC to participate in the “March for Our Lives” organized by the teenage survivors of the school massacre in Parkland, Florida. Thousands more attended 800 sister marches across the nation and around the world for gun reform. Gun control is often portrayed as a “white” issue, but

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The Sacramento Police Department Are No Angels

If we are going to go digging into people’s pasts after a police shooting, let’s start with the ones holding the smoking guns.

Monique Judge
作者 Monique Judge
Helmeted Sacramento Police officers block the entrance to the Sacramento City Council chambers from demonstrators protesting the shooting death of Stephon Clark by Sacramento Police, Tuesday, March 27, 2018, in Sacramento, Calif. Clark, who was unarmed, was shot and killed a week earlier by two officers responding to a call about a person smashing car windows. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

While the shooting death of Stephon Clark has made national headlines over the last two weeks, it is not the first questionable shooting the Sacramento, Calif., Police Department has had. It is just one in a long list of many questionable incidents or activities the department has been linked to. Each and every time there is a police shooting

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If Police Don’t Have to Protect the Public, What Good Are They?

The U.S. Supreme Court has repeatedly affirmed, most recently in 2005, that police have no constitutional duty to protect members of the public from harm.

John Whitehead
作者 John Whitehead
Police ride on an armored vehicle through Baltimore on an armored vehicle following protests which occurred after the funeral of Freddie Gray, who was killed by police. A 10 p.m. curfew was in effect, April 28, 2015 (AP/David Goldman)

In the American police state, police have a tendency to shoot first and ask questions later. In fact, police don’t usually need much incentive to shoot and kill members of the public. Police have shot and killed Americans of all ages—many of them unarmed—for standing a certain way, or moving a certain way, or holding something—anything—that

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US Police Kill A Thousand Each Year While Cops Are Safer than Trash Collectors

Despite the unflagging attempts to portray a “war on cops,” data consistently shows that being a police officer is safer than many other professions. In fact, it is safer than being a taxi driver or a trash collector.

Thandisizwe Chimurenga
作者 Thandisizwe Chimurenga
A protester displays a sign outside a courthouse after Officer Caesar Goodson, one of six Baltimore city police officers charged in connection to the death of Freddie Gray, was acquitted of all charges in his trial in Baltimore, June 23, 2016. (AP/Patrick Semansky)

WASHINGTON – The Washington Post reported that 2017 saw close to a thousand people killed by law enforcement in the U.S. -- 987 people in total, an increase of 16 over the number killed in 2016. According to the Post -- which has been tracking police killings since 2015, a project it began after the unrest in Ferguson, Missouri: National scrutiny

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2017 Deadliest On Record For Killings By Police

Police in the United States are breaking records in 2017 by killing a record number of the same people they claim to serve and protect, and there is no change in sight under the current administration.

Rachel Blevins
作者 Rachel Blevins
BLM protesters outsideof the Minneapolis Police Department's Third Precinct Nov. 25, 2014. (AP Photo/Jim Mone)

In 2017 alone, police have killed 746 people in the U.S., according to the Killed By Police database, which puts this year on pace to become the deadliest year on record. In contrast, in the first seven months of 2016, police killed 714 people; the number was slightly higher in 2015 with 725 killed, and it was noticeably lower in 2014 with 663

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The Sniper Shooting In Dallas Was Both Murder And Blowback

Just as international terrorism is often blowback from international war and occupation, the sniper attack on cops in Dallas yesterday was blowback from American police acting as a domestic army of occupation.

Dan Sanchez
作者 Dan Sanchez
A clerk looks at broke windows shot out at a store in downtown Dallas, Friday, July 8, 2016. Snipers opened fire on police officers in the heart of Dallas during protests over two recent fatal police shootings of black men.

Five police officers were killed and six were injured in Dallas yesterday when snipers opened fire during a protest of the recent police killings of Philando Castile and Alton Sterling. This mass shooting was a despicable act of murder. It was also blowback. The motor of this spinning cycle of reciprocal bloodshed is

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