Police of the United States during the first half of 2017 killed 492 people.
For the third year in a row for 12 months, this figure reaches thousands more people, according to the Washington Post.
The Washington Post began to track and record all such incidents since August 2014, with the case of cops killing 18-year-old African American Michael brown in Ferguson, Missouri. Michael brown, who was allegedly linked to the robbery, shot police officer Darren Wilson. Prior to that, brown has no criminal record or arrests. The incident received wide publicity and provoked social unrest — demonstrations, protests, violence.
The Washington Post also reports that his numbers differ from the official, which is published by the Federal Bureau of investigation. Thus, according to the FBI, the police killings of the inhabitants was two times less.
«These figures indicate that the frequent use of police weapons against the inhabitants — is a constant and, unfortunately, does not change with time,» said Geoffrey Alpert, a criminologist from the University of South Carolina. «This is our society in the XXI century».
