Title: 42 Shocking Police Brutality Statistics – Vittana.org
Headings: 42 Shocking Police Brutality Statistics
42 Shocking Police Brutality Statistics
Statistics About Police Brutality

Content: Police officers risk death every single day. The sacrifices that law enforcement make on our behalf are often overlooked and underappreciated. Police brutality statistics should not exist, but they do because a small minority of officers abuse their privilege. The other side of the story is all of the police officers who are injured in the line of duty. This is not referring to the fact that, in spite of the dangers of Covid-19, police officers have still gone to work and Covid-19 has now killed more police officers than all other causes combined (as of September 2020). It is referring to, for example, the over 317 police officers who were injured or killed in protests or targeted attacks…in the week of May 25, 2020 alone (Federalist, June 5, 2020). Statistics About Police Brutality
1. Police officers are indicted in fewer than 1% of killings, but the indictment rate for civilians involved in a killing is 90%. ( FiveThirtyEight)
2. On average, in the United States, a police officer takes the life of a citizen every 7 hours. (