Guardian: 1000 people have been killed in the US by police this year

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http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/nov/16/the-counted-killed-by-police-1000

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Well I am shocked SHOCKED that the police are most out of control in the most right wing state. We should be ashamed of these numbers.

Pretty meaningless without a baseline to compare it to.

National statistics for this aren't kept, so they have to start somewhere. (By a foreign newspaper no less, maybe because American ones are too scared of police retaliation).

1,000 people killed doesn't strike you as an unusually high, regardless of circumstances? It's not like every one of them was armed.