Police have too much power and not enough oversight.
According to data from 2019 and 2021, there are 2.8 local and state safety officers for every 1,000 citizens. Employed officers generally scale with state population, but New York and Washington, DC are the exceptions with ratios of 4.3 and 6.5 to 1,000 citizens, respectively (though more recent data for 2023 shows the ratio in New York climbing closer to the same 6.5 as DC). Compare that 2.8 average with the official census data for 2019 and you get about 787,775 officers in the United States that year.
Those numbers have decreased quite a bit from heights of over one million between 2008-2019, but violent and property crime has decreased as well. Despite the decrease in crime, government spending hit an all-time high of $267 billion on law enforcement in 2020. The prison population has also been declining, albeit far too slowly, over the past 14 years, so where is that $267 billion going?
Officer interactions with people of color continue to be violent, and often deadly, but even in cities that elected more Democratic candidates in 2020, police budgets have increased after promises of change were made. Increased budgets may be necessary when used for training, education, and oversight, but in 2019 only 1% of police departments were subject to any kind of community oversight. Imagine 787,775 cops out on the streets and 99% are investigated internally if wrongdoing is reported -- assuming any investigation happens at all.
None of these statistics are scary if officers are doing their jobs and doing them well, protecting and serving their communities, right? That's where Trust No Cop comes in.
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