Source: CounterPunch
by Jeffrey Adler
“The horrific recent murders of Tyre Nichols, George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Laquan McDonald, Michael Brown, Eric Garner, and many other African American citizens have brought increased public awareness to police violence in America. Today, police officers in the United States kill suspects at 100 times the rate of their English counterparts and employ deadly force more than 30 times more frequently than German law enforcers. Among affluent, industrial nations, the U.S. stands alone in police violence. Although neither police brutality nor racialized police murders is a new phenomenon, police brutality and police homicide have increased dramatically during the last 100 years in the United States. Why are American police so violent? And how do we make sense of the horrific increase of these killings?” (04/16/24)
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/04/16/how-american-policing-became-so-violent/