U.S. policing budgets would rank as the world's third-highest military expenditure

[vernonbird]

@beschizza

US police are militarized by policy, trained to treat the public as a threat, and kill people in far greater numbers than their foreign counterparts. The declared enemy of American police forces is the American people, and their war on us claims about 1000 lives a year.

More than that, if you count those that die while in the clutches of the Prison Industrial Complex… found dead in a county jail cell, died from an altercation in prison, etc. The 1k are just the people that were openly killed that we know about.
Not surprising though, in a society that worships cops. And soldiers.