Title: Police Violence | Amnesty International
Headings: 
Police Violence
What is “police brutality”?
Why is police brutality a human rights issue?
Are police allowed to kill people?
What about national laws?
What causes police brutality?
How many people have died at the hands of the police?
Case study: Nakiea Jackson
Police brutality and racism
Case study: France
More examples of discrimination in policing
Killings of Black people in the USA
5 facts about police use of force in the US A
Stopping police abuses in the USA
Accountability
Policing protests
Solutions

Content: Governments who routinely trample on other human rights like freedom of expression and peaceful assembly often authorize heavy-handed police responses to protests and demonstrations. We’ve seen this recently in Iran, Iraq, Sudan, Hong Kong and Nicaragua. Impunity for killings by police often leads to a deadly cycle of violence. In Brazil for example, officers routinely kill people who pose no threat – mostly young Black men – safe in the knowledge that these killings are rarely investigated or prosecuted. How many people have died at the hands of the police? It’s hard to get reliable figures on killings by police because many governments do not collect or publish this data. The Small Arms Survey says that in each year between 2007 and 2012, an estimated 19,000 people were killed during ‘legal interventions’ (encounters with police). Most of the available data refers to specific countries or time periods, and are often estimates by NGOs or human rights groups. Here are some examples: In 2019 police in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, killed 1,810 people - an average of five per day
In 2019, Kenyan police killed 122 people
Between October 2019 and January 2020, police in Iraq killed around 600 protesters
Between 2015 and 2018, over 500 people were fatally shot by the police in Jamaica, and over 300 shot and injured
Around 1000 people are killed by police in the USA every year.