Comply or Die: Why Do Police Have License to Kill With Impunity?
This is a conversation that won’t go away because the police continue to kill people.
Police can’t seem to stop murdering unarmed people, particularly Black people, because they refuse to deescalate situations, and they refuse to stop putting themselves and others in harm’s way.
I get it. The police are supposed to protect and serve. They are also authority figures who are entitled to respect from the public.
The problem is that American police have a corruption problem, a racism problem, a police brutality problem, and an accountability problem.
In the year that American police officers killed 1,099 people — Canadian police officers killed 36 people, Australian police officers killed 21 people, and Icelandic and Norwegian police officers killed ZERO people.
If you compare the rates American police officers kill civilians, adjusted for population, US police officers still kill at an exponentially higher rate.
