US police kill more in days than other countries do in years: Guardian
A comprehensive database published by the Guardian newspaper shows that police in the United States kill more Americans in days than the police in other countries do in years.
The interactive database, dubbed the Counted, indicates that US police officers kill about twice the number of people as reported by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
The record also draws a stark contrast between the number of fatal police shootings in the US and Germany. It said US police kill more people in one week than German police kill in an entire year.
The German Police University announced in 2012 that German police had killed six people by gunshot in 2011 and seven in 2012, while police in the US killed 19 people just in the first five months of this year.
Similar figures have been reported regarding the situation in Australia, Canada, Finland, Iceland and other countries.
The report said US police killed more people in one month in 2015 than police in Australia officially reported during a span of 19 years.
The US government does not maintain a complete tally of police shootings. The Guardian’s estimate of 497 police killings as of June 10 is roughly twice as high as the figure offered up by the FBI.
The federal government must rely on partial data because the country's roughly 17,000 state and local police departments are not required to report such killings.
US police have killed people at a rate of more than two a day this year, The Washington Post reported in May, using its own tally for lack of complete federal statistics.
In the police killings it analyzed this year, the newspaper found that relative to the overall population, blacks were killed at three times the rate of other minorities or whites.
“These shootings are grossly underreported,” former police chief Jim Bueermann, head of a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving law enforcement, told The Post. “We are never going to reduce the number of police shootings if we don’t begin to accurately track this information.”
The latest report comes as a national debate rages over police use of deadly force, especially in black and other minority communities.
Widespread protests have taken place during the past year against US police violence following the high-profile deaths of several African-Americans since last summer.
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