Police brutality in the United States, the unwarranted or excessive and often illegal use of force against civilians by U.S. police officers.

We find that rates of fatal police shootings across urbanicity vary by race of the victim. Here we describe what the law requires and also offer strategies for handling police encounters. Being stopped by police is a stressful experience that can go bad quickly. They are not soldiers. Around 2015-2016, The Guardian newspaper ran its own database, The Counted, which tracked US killings by police and other law enforcement agencies including from gunshots, tasers, car accidents and custody deaths.In 2015 they counted 1146 deaths and 1093 deaths for 2016.

Police killings per capita vary dramatically across America's largest cities, the data shows. We want to be clear: The burden of de-escalation does not fall on private citizens — it falls on police officers.

Police are civilians. They are subject to the rule of law adjudicated within civilian courts — not military justice. Rates of fatal police shootings are lowest in suburban places by all five classification schemes, but not always markedly lower. The latest Police Shootings Database: 472 People Have Been Shot and Killed by Police in 2020 (Updated: 06/14/2020) – 1004 People Have Been Shot and Killed by Police in 2019 – 992 People Have Been Shot and Killed by Police in 2018 – 986 People Have Been Shot and Killed by Police in 2017 – 962 People Have Been Shot and Killed by Police in 2016 – 994 People Have Been Shot and Killed … By most measures of rurality, police are shooting and killing civilians in rural areas at equal rates as in urban areas. Forms of police brutality have ranged from assault and battery (e.g., beatings) to mayhem, torture, and murder.

“By reducing force and hostility, this type of training might help the process of rebuilding trust between police and civilians — and because the training is relatively short and can be staggered over time, it will not be a major disruption of policing activities,” Wood adds. They are the civil power.