{"id":20269,"date":"2023-01-06T12:42:30","date_gmt":"2023-01-06T11:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=20269"},"modified":"2023-01-08T06:21:47","modified_gmt":"2023-01-08T05:21:47","slug":"it-never-stops-killings-by-us-police-reach-record-high-in-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/?p=20269","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It never stops\u2019: killings by US <span style=\"white-space: nowrap;\">police<\/span> reach record high in 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2023\/jan\/06\/us-police-killings-record-number-2022\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Guardian<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"dcr-h26idz\">US law enforcement killed at least 1,176 people in 2022, making it the deadliest year on record for police violence since experts first started tracking the killings, a new data analysis reveals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-h26idz\">Police across the country killed an average of more than three people a day, or nearly 100 people every month last year according to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mappingpoliceviolence.us\/\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">Mapping Police Violence<\/a>. The non-profit research group maintains a database of reported deaths at the hands of law enforcement, including people fatally shot, beaten, restrained and Tasered.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2026<\/p>\n<p>In 2022, 132 killings (11%) were cases in which no offense was alleged; <span style=\"white-space: nowrap;\">104 cases (9%)<\/span> were mental health or welfare checks; <span style=\"white-space: nowrap;\">98 (8%)<\/span> involved\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2022\/apr\/21\/us-police-violence-traffic-stop-data\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">traffic violations<\/a>; and <span style=\"white-space: nowrap;\">207 (18%)<\/span> involved other allegations of nonviolent offenses. There were also <span style=\"white-space: nowrap;\">93 cases (8%)<\/span> involving claims of a domestic disturbance and <span style=\"white-space: nowrap;\">128 (11%)<\/span> where the person was allegedly seen with a weapon. Only <span style=\"white-space: nowrap;\">370 (31%)<\/span> involved a potentially more serious situation, with an alleged violent crime.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2026<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s more, in 32% of cases last year, the person was\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2022\/jul\/28\/hunted-one-in-three-people-killed-by-us-police-were-fleeing-data-reveals\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">fleeing before they were killed<\/a>, generally running or driving off \u2013 cases in which experts say lethal force is unwarranted and also endangers the public.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-h26idz\">The consistent numbers year after year make clear that \u201cbroad systemic change\u201d is necessary to prevent these killings, said Dr Elizabeth Jordie Davies, a Johns Hopkins postdoctoral fellow and expert on social movements. While there have been growing calls to defund police,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2022\/feb\/03\/joe-biden-defund-police-new-york-eric-adams\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">leaders<\/a>\u00a0of both political parties have advocated the opposite \u2013 pushing for the expansion of law enforcement, she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-h26idz\">\u201cThere\u2019s a continual commitment to using violence to control people and manage problems in this country. And as we keep giving police more money and power, we\u2019ll continue to see more police violence.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guardian: US law enforcement killed at least 1,176 people in 2022, making it the deadliest year on record for police violence since experts first started tracking the killings, a new data analysis reveals. Police across the country killed an average &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/?p=20269\">Weiterlesen <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}