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US police brutality exacerbated by gun culture: American law professor
The United States has “by far the most violent” law enforcement agencies in the world, which is exacerbated by the dominant gun culture and societal violence in the country, according to an expert on international law.
“You have several features that are unique to the US, one of them is that there is this glorification of self-[law] enforcement by the citizenry and protection through the position of weapons,” said Richard Falk, an American Professor of International Law and Practice, Emeritus at Princeton University.
“And then there is very poor training of the police who also often partake of racist attitudes that make them both afraid and hostile to the non-white minorities,” Falk told Press TV on Wednesday.
“So you have this mixture of a more violent society, a less trained police force, and a set of attitudes that lead the police to feel justified in using lethal violence to uphold their duties,” he added.
“It’s an unfortunate set of circumstances but very difficult to see how it can be corrected without some fundamental shift in the gun culture that still dominates the United States.”
Falk made the comments after a comprehensive database published by the Guardian newspaper showed that police in the United States kill more Americans in days than the police in other countries do in years.
The interactive database, dubbed the Counted, indicates that US police officers kill about twice the number of people as reported by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
The record also draws a stark contrast between the number of fatal police shootings in the US and Germany. It said US police kill more people in one week than German police kill in an entire year.
The German Police University announced in 2012 that German police had killed six people by gunshot in 2011 and seven in 2012, while police in the US killed 19 people just in the first five months of this year.
Similar figures have been reported regarding the situation in Australia, Canada, Finland, Iceland and other countries.
The report said US police killed more people in one month in 2015 than police in Australia officially reported during a span of 19 years.
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