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There have been about 5000 lynchings in the history of the United States since the end of the Civil War. (Numbers on this vary)

Police killed ⅓ that number just last year.

There is something seriously wrong with law enforcement in the US:

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 of more than three people a day, or nearly 100 people every month last year according to Mapping Police Violence. 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.

The preliminary 2022 total – a possible undercount as more cases are catalogued – marks 31 additional fatalities than the year before. In 2021, police killed 1,145 people; 1,152 in 2020; 1,097 in 2019; 1,140 in 2018; and 1,089 in 2017. The earliest data goes back to 2013, when advocates began counting these fatal incidents. A database run by the Washington Post, which tracks fatal shootings by police, also shows 2022 as a year with record killings.

The data release comes two years after the murder of George Floyd sparked national uprisings calling for racial justice, police accountability and reductions in the funding and size of police forces. Despite the international attention and some local efforts to curb police brutality, there has been an intensifying backlash to criminal justice reform, and the overall number of killings has remained alarmingly high.

“It just never stops,” said Bianca Austin, aunt of Breonna Taylor, whose March 2020 killing in Kentucky sparked mass protests. “There was a movement and uproar across the globe, and we’re still having more killings? What are we doing wrong? It’s so disheartening.”

As to what needs to be done to prevent this?  I would suggest that a good first step would not to train new police to be live in psychopathic pants wetting terror of the people that they are supposed to protect and serve.

Police training in the America trains cops to see a lethal attacker behind every bush, and not only does it foment violence, but it is a recipe for creating PTSD.

Beyond that, limits on overtime, and limits on moonlighting, would help as well, because a sleep deprived man with a gun and authority to use it is clearly not beneficial for anyone.