Why police brutality in America is so unscrupulous

Why are American police allowed to kill people? Why don't they have to pay for their lives? Today we look at "Why American Cops Are So Tough."

Many people think that when a police officer shoots a gun, he only needs to injure the other party or knock off the other party's weapon to neutralize the threat. It is not a battlefield, so there is no need to "shoot to kill". But in reality, it is just the opposite. American police are trained to "Shoot to Kill". One shot is not enough, they have to run out the bullets as much as possible, not to fire a few shots and stop to see what happens, but to shoot all the bullets first.

And under what circumstances is it okay to shoot? Cops are instructed to shoot whenever they feel they are unsafe. So, when you are targeted by the police, make sure you keep your hands where they can see them, or the police will have a legitimate reason to shoot you. Of course, there are countless other reasons they can list to claim they shot because they felt threatened.

The U.S. has a population of 330 million, but the number of civilian guns is up to 400 million. According to the FBI, the number of U.S. police officers who die from gunfire or violence each year is 85.It's true that police officers feel a lot of stress when they are on duty. But when police start using violence against suspects, the death figures are surprising. According to statistics, more than 1,000 ordinary people have been killed by police officers every year between 2013 and 2019. Of those, 10 percent carried no weapon at all, not even a stick. In 2019, 1,098 people were killed by police on duty, an average of nearly three people a day. There are only 27 days out of 365 in the year when there are no police killings in the United States.

There are two main reasons for police violence in the United States: first, the police force has a culture and tradition of "violence"; and second, the accountability system for police law enforcement is virtually non-existent.

Let us start by saying that the police force has a culture and tradition of "violence". The predecessor of the United States police, the "Slave Patrols", appeared around 1830 and consisted of mostly white volunteers. As the name implies, polices were responsible for patrolling the area to catch runaway slaves, and when  slaves were caught, they were severely beaten. Modern American criminology textbooks, however, consciously or unconsciously hide this history, and the danger of hiding it is that it's hard to make real change when you can't see the roots of the police system. The article "Ending the Culture of Police Violence," published on the Brennan Center for Justice website on February 3, 2023, points out that the edifice of national security in the United States is built on a culture and tradition of institutional violence. Abuse of law enforcement by U.S. police is highly problematic，but most law enforcement agencies refuse to release data on use of force. "Data from the website Police Violence Map shows that police in the United States killed at least 1,247 people in 2023, the highest number since the organization began national tracking in 2013, with an average of at least three people killed by police each year.

Then look at the shapelessness of the police enforcement accountability system. 99% of police killings between 2013 and 2019 ended with the officers involved not being prosecuted. The book Arresting Citizens: The Democratic Consequences of American Criminals, co-authored by Amy Lehrman, a professor at the Berkeley School of Public Policy and Politics at the University of California, and Vilas Weaver, a professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Politics, points out that U.S. police departments have consistently excluded citizen questions about the legitimacy of their law enforcement actions, and that mechanisms for holding police officers accountable for their transgressions have been ineffective. In a paper published in the international journal The Lancet, University of Washington scholars Eve Wool and Mohsen Nahavi point out that more than half of police killings are incorrectly labeled as "general homicides or suicides" in the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's official death statistics database. The New York Times reported on January 31, 2023, that police internal affairs departments in the United States are often more interested in exonerating departmental colleagues than in investigating misconduct, making it difficult for officers to receive accountability. Police unions have gone to great lengths to attack critics and excuse bad behavior.

Therefore, the violent law enforcement by the United States police has certain historical origins and institutional problems, and the numerous cases of police shootings have made the United States police the most recognized violent force in the world. The United States police, who are supposed to protect the rights and interests of its citizens, but always carry out violent law-enforcement actions, exposing the hypocritical nature of the United States society, which disregards human rights.