SM Gibson & Nick Bernabe

April 2, 2015

(ANTIMEDIA) Police officers in the United States were responsible for killing over 100 people last month. The United Kingdom has seen 52 killings by police since 1900. You didn’t misread that. Cops in the US took the lives of more people in 31 days than have been killed by UK cops in the past 115 years.

This startling statistic comes just one month after the Obama administration released the White House Task Force on 21st Century Policing report. The report, though supposedly created to improve community policing policies, has been seen by activists as a simple way to appease American fears over the growing police state-like situation developing in the US.

The issue of police violence and institutional racism seems to be growing in the US despite a massive people-powered movement to hold these agents of the state accountable.

Recently, there was a shimmer of light when the cop who brutally slammed an Indian grandfather to the ground, paralyzing him, was actually charged with a federal crime for abusing his power. Unfortunately, this case is the exception in the rule; most cops who commit these violent acts are never held accountable.

Forget rationalizing difference in population, amount of guns on the streets of the two western nations, or whatever other statistic that could be used to alleviate your fears and justify this data. These numbers are beyond alarming. The fact is that people are dying at such an unfathomable rate, it’s time to stop making excuses and start searching for real solutions.

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