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Another study published in 2016 concluded that the mortality rate of legal interventions among Black and Hispanic people was 2.8 and 1.7 times higher than that among White people. Another 2015 study concluded that black people were 2.8 times more likely to be killed by police than whites. They also concluded that black people were more likely to be unarmed than white people who were in turn more likely to be unarmed than Hispanic people shot by the police.[33][34] A 2018 study in the American Journal of Public Health found the mortality rate by police per 100,000 was 1.9 to 2.4 for black men, 0.8 to 1.2 for Hispanic men and 0.6 to 0.7 for white men.
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Imagine a hospital in your city whose fatality rate was triple all the other hospitals (for comparable cases of course) — where people with minor illnesses often died just from being in that hospital.
Imagine further this hospital had had mortality rates like this for generations; that they had deliberately refused to train their medical staff to prevent fatalities; that in fact they refused to keep records of these fatalities at all; that doctors who had repeatedly killed patients were promoted and rewarded.
What would you think of this hospital?
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England, with 55 million people, is violent. While there are a lot fewer murders per capita than the United States, there are a lot more stabbings, beatings, rapes, assaults, muggings — you name it — you’re significantly more likely to be the victim of a violent crime if you live in England than in the United States. Lots of poor people, lots of immigrants, lots of mutual suspicion, lots of alcohol, it’s a volatile mix.
In 2016, the most recent year I have statistics for, English (and Welsh) police killed three times as many people as the year before — that is to say, they killed three people in 2016, and one person in 2015. In 2014, they killed zero people.
The United States has a significantly lower rate of violent crime, and almost exactly six times the population of England. If England had 3 police killings, all else being equal, you’d expect the USA to have 18 in the same time.
In fact, the United States is the only country in the developed world that doesn’t keep any statistics on how many of its own residents are killed by its own law enforcement, but there are projects which keep a list of known cases from police blotters and press releases. There were certainly over one thousand killings by law enforcement in the US.
Let me repeat this — a person living in the United States is over fifty times as likely to be killed by their own law enforcement as someone living in England.
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So my hospital analogy was inaccurate — to be accurate, the mortality rate would have to be fifty times as much as the hospital down the street. Oh, and it would cost a lot more — because the US spends far more per capita on law enforcement and “corrections” than any other developed country.
At some point, generations of deliberate coverups of wilful malpractice with such deadly results is indistinguishable from murder.
