This is not a "Feel good that I, whitey, am doing something good" site. This is a site to help us who are frustrated as white people, at not being able to stop the terrorizing and murder of our fellow Black and brown citizens by the Police and other institutions that operate in our names.

Please EVERY TIME a cop kills a Black person, please  resend your  letters to ALL of your elected officials.

 

As time goes on, and we get input from smarter and more experienced people, we will suggest more to do. But  for now, if you write you City Councilperson , your County Commissioner, your Mayor, your Sheriff, your State Representative, your State Senator, your Governor, your U.S> Congressperson, your US Senator, the head of the FBI, the head of the U.S. Justice Department, the White House and let them know you, as a white  person stand against the abuse of people of color, this may eventually have a impact. Once you have  written your first series of letters, it will be easy enough to resend them again, the next day, or the day after that. It does seem like a small thing to do, but it may help, if we do it EVERY TIME.

 

Please post your letter with your name and the name of every official you are sending it to, here. Each month, I will post a new blog with this same information. Until I gget better help, you will post below, and it will come to Checkers email, where i will copy it nd paste it here. I cannot seem to make your posts come directly to the blog when you post.

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And there is this, that I stole:

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The tally for 2014? 1,100 people killed by those sworn to protect. That is an average of three people a day.

Do not mistake this as saying that those who were killed were innocent. However, when we look at violent crime in this country, we can see that it is at an all time low.

While violence among citizens has dropped, violence against citizens carried out by police has been rising sharply.

When we look at citizens killed by police over the last two years, deaths have increased 44 percent in this short time; 763 people were killing by police in 2013.

As a comparison, the total number of US troops killed in Afghanistan and Iraq, in 2014 was 58.

Fewer soldiers were killed in war than citizens back home in “the land of the free” in 2014, by a large margin.

So why is that?

Is this some natural tendency of police in “free societies” to kill their citizens more, in an effort to maintain this freedom? Hardly, and hardly is the US a free country.

According to the 2014 Legatum Prosperity Index released in November, in the measure of personal freedom, the United States has fallen from 9th place in 2010 to 21st worldwide—behind such countries as Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany, Uruguay and Costa Rica.

Other such rankings systems show the US as low as 46.

Let’s look at our immediate neighbors to the north, Canada. The total number of citizens killed by law enforcement officers in the year 2014, was 14; that is 78 times less people than the US.

If we look at the United Kingdom, 1 person was killed by police in 2014 and 0 in 2013. English police reportedly fired guns a total of three times in all of 2013, with zero reported fatalities.

From 2010 through 2014, there were four fatal police shootings in England, which has a population of about 52 million. By contrast, Albuquerque, N.M., with a population 1 percent the size of England’s, had 26 fatal police shootings in that same time period.

China, whose population is 4 and 1/2 times the size of the United States, recorded 12 killings by law enforcement officers in 2014.

Let that sink in. Law enforcement in the US killed 92 times more people than a country with nearly 1.4 billion people. 

It doesn’t stop there.

From 2013-2014, German police killed absolutely no one. 

In the entire history of Iceland police, they have only killed 1 person ever. After exhausting all non-lethal methods to detain an armed man barricaded in his house who actually shot 2 police officers, police were forced to take the 59-year-old man’s life. The country of Iceland grieved for weeks after having to resort to violence.

Read more at http://thefreethoughtproject.com/police-kill-citizens-70-times-rate-first-world-nations/#gBJUvTGET1fk2P6Z.99