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Thursday, May 14, 2015

In The United States Of Barbaria, We Train Our Cops To Kill


American Cops Fire More Bullets At One NYC Man Than All German Cops Fire In A Year
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/09/85-shots-us-cops-use-more-ammo-per-man.html


1 Small Town's Cops Have Killed More People Than Combined Police Of Germany And U.K.
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/02/1-small-towns-cops-have-killed-more.html


Pax Compendium. What's Wrong With The USA: Extreme Wealth Inequality, Racism & Violence

Australian Comedian Nails 2nd Amendment Evangelists
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/03/australian-comedian-nails-2nd-amendment.html


Favorite George Carlin Shticks


Alan: American police departments teach cadets to be trigger happy -- especially with people of color -- to "take immediate control of the situation" even if immediacy means killing people.

It is now clear that pressured immediacy leads to barbaric outcomes with no observable benefit.

Diane Rehm Guest Gets To The Nub Of Police Violence And How Easily It's Prevented





In 2012, 409 people were shot and killed by American police in what were termed justifiable shootings. In that same year, British police officers fired their weapons just once. No one was killed.
In 2013, British police officers fired their weapons all of three times. No one died. According to The Economist, “British citizens are around 100 times less likely to be shot by a police officer than Americans. Between 2010 and 2014, the police force of one small American city — Albuquerque in New Mexico — shot and killed 23 civilians; seven times more than the number of Brits killed by all of England and Wales’s 43 forces during the same period.
Think about that. In 2013, cops in the U.K. fired their guns three times. 

Last week, in Ferguson, Mo., a cop shot as many bullets at an 18-year-old as the number of bullets fired by all British cops in 2013. 

And the Ferguson cop fired six times as many shots in that one encounter with an unarmed black teen as all British cops fired in 2012.

One day, someone will provide a racial breakdown of all U.S. shootings and I suspect the lead photo above tells us what to expect.

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