It would seem that the police in the U.S. are committed to breaking a murder record 2015, as the total body count at the hands of police is up to 138. That\u2019s 1 person every 8 hours! Moreover, every police officer killed this year was murdered by other cops. Continue reading below for the gripping article from TheFreeThoughtProject.com with statistics sure to shock and enrage you.<\/p>\n
As of February 16, only a month and a half into 2015, there has been at least 138 individuals killed by police in the United States since the first of the year.<\/p>\n
The frighteningly high number averages out to three killed per day, or someone killed every eight hours. While there is no government-run database, Killed By Police<\/a> has taken it upon themselves to keep track, and are doing a fantastic job thus far.<\/p>\n Just to put things into perspective, let\u2019s take a look at the rates at which police in other countries kill their citizens.<\/p>\n Let\u2019s look at our immediate neighbors to the north, Canada. The total number of citizens killed<\/a> by law enforcement officers in the year 2014, was 14; that is 78 times less people than the US.<\/p>\n If we look at the United Kingdom, 1 person was killed by police in 2014 and 0 in 2013.<\/a>\u00a0English police reportedly fired guns a total of three times in all of 2013, with zero reported fatalities.<\/p>\n