Inconvenient Facts About American Policing:
- Most police receive less training than a hair stylist. In Michigan for example, you'll be required to get over 5 times as much training to work with electrical signs as you need to be a cop!
- Most police receive less training than a hair stylist. In Michigan for example, you'll be required to get over 5 times as much training to work with electrical signs as you need to be a cop!
- US policing originated from slave patrols. To this day the system exists mainly as a way to enforce & even create inequality.
- Police are successfully convicted of murder .021% of the time when they kill someone. THREE cops have been convicted of murder over the past 15 years, while US police have killed roughly 15,000 people.
- 25% of all the people cops kill are found to be severely mentally ill. If you add in mentally troubled or unstable, it's likely over 50%.
- There's been a surge of meaningless laws in America, allowing cops to arrest/attack people for things like loitering, sleeping in public, feeding the homeless, & begging for money. Basically poverty has been increasingly criminalized.
- ACTUAL massive crimes are ignored by police. Corporations kill millions by pushing opioids, covering crops in cancer-causing chemicals, leaving asbestos-filled baby powder on the shelves, etc. Generally speaking police don't concern themselves with large-scale crime.
- US police are not protecting average citizens. They are protecting corporate control, protecting entrenched class hierarchy, protecting the rich (mostly white) upper class from the poor, protecting the oligarchs.
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