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Shooting death of unarmed homeless man by LAPD reveals deep flaws in American policing

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Police in America are shooting and killing people at an outrageously alarming rate. While the United Kingdom averages less than one fatal police shooting per year, the United States averages three per day, and small towns like Pasco, Washington, with just 59,000 residents, outpace the police shootings of nations with 60 million people, causing publications like The Economist to just flat out call American police "trigger happy."
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Meryl Ann Butler is an artist, author, educator and OpedNews Managing Editor who has been actively engaged in utilizing the arts as stepping-stones toward joy-filled wellbeing since she was a hippie. She began writing for OpEdNews in Feb, 2004. She became a Senior Editor in August 2012 and Managing Editor in January, (more...)
 

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