“You might not know it from watching TV news, but FBI statistics show that crime in the U.S.—including violent crime—has been trending steadily downward for years, falling 19% between 1987 and 2011. The job of being a police officer has become safer too, as the number of police killed by gunfire plunged to 33 last year, down 50% from 2012, to its lowest level since, wait for it, 1887, a time when the population was 75% lower than it is today.  So why are we seeing an ever increasing militarization of policing across the country?”

http://www.alternet.org/more-americans-killed-police-terrorists-crime-down-why-police-aggression

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