Police Killed More People Last Year Than Ever Before

2022 was the deadliest year on record for police killing civilians, with an average of nearly 3.5 killings happening every single day. In fact, there were only twelve days out of the entire year when there were no REPORTED killings of civilians by police. The epidemic of violence at the hands of police officers has been growing every year since 2019, with a good number of the people being killed involved in non-violent offenses and traffic stops. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins discusses this disturbing new information.

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Startling new statistics have been released from the group mapping police violence that show that the year 2022 was in fact the deadliest year on record since these records began, uh, being kept for police killing civilians here in the United States. Here's the numbers. 1,176 people were killed by police officers in the year 2022. That amounts to 3.2 killings every single day of the year and out of the entire calendar year for 2022. There were only 12 days when there was not a report of a police officer killing someone in this country, only 12 days where a killing was not reported. Now that doesn't mean it didn't happen, it just means it wasn't reported. And I want everybody to make sure you understand that distinction. Only 12 days where a police killing wasn't report Ted. Now, ever since the year 2019, murders conducted by police officers have been rising here in the United States.

And when you dig into these statistics, the picture gets a little scarier because we're not talking about 1,176 people killed by police officers because they were trying to hurt police officers. No more than one third of the people killed by police officers were non-violent offenders. That means any non-violent offense happening on the street. Traffic stops just routine traffic stops. Cop pulls somebody over. Next thing you know, the cops killed the person. And mental health and wellness checks things that police officers shouldn't even be doing. An individual suffering, a mental health crisis, a cop shows up, all they know how to do is shoot a gun and they kill the person who was in crisis. We have seen reports of this last year of cops shooting people when they responded to a wellness check on that person, neighbors thought, Hey, I haven't seen this person in a while. Their doors open. Something may have happened. They may have had a health issue, and the cop went in and killed them. 24, uh, 24% of the murders conducted by police officers were black people. Even though black people in the country only make up 13% of the population, so disproportionately killing black people, killing non-violent offenders, killing people during traffic stops, this cannot be reformed. I mean, I guess in the sense of yeah, if you took their guns away, we would probably end a lot of the killings. You don't

End all of them, you'd end most of them, but this is systemic. This is nationwide there. There's nowhere in the country, no state where this isn't happening. Every day almost something has to be done. We have to keep paying attention to this issue and we have to come up with better solutions cuz what we've got right now, sure as hell isn't working. And we don't want to go through another record year of police killing civilians just because we can't come up with solutions. We have to do better as a country.