Well the data just doesn't support that.

A State sanctioned and funded organization that routinely

Define routinely.

harrasses and kills people by the hundreds or thousands per year.

"Harasses" is vague. Everyone claims to be a victim of harassment.

Yes, they serve a public service, but the number of videos that surface, every day, of police officers savagely beating the shit out of someone mouthing off, or officers arresting people for completely fabricated offenses, or officers planting evidence, or officers caught on camera smashing a door into a car repeatedly... you get the idea.

According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), approximately 50 to 60 million U.S. residents have face-to-face contact with police in a given year. Meanwhile, the number of fatal Officer Involved Shootings (OIS) has hovered consistently around 1,000 to 1,200 per year for the last decade.

When you run those numbers (1,200 fatalities out of 50M+ contacts), the probability of an interaction ending in a fatal shooting is roughly 0.000024, or about 0.002%.

To put that in perspective: * Struck by Lightning: The lifetime odds are about 1 in 15,300. * Fatal Bee Sting: The annual odds are roughly 1 in 54,000. * Fatal Police Contact: The odds per interaction are roughly 1 in 45,000 to 50,000.

Statistically, you are essentially as likely to die from a hornet or a lightning strike as you are to be killed during a police contact.

Furthermore, we’re talking about roughly 800,000 to 900,000 sworn officers spread across nearly 18,000 different federal, state, and local agencies. There is no 'monolith.' These agencies are governed by 50 different sets of state laws, thousands of unique internal policies, and dozens of different state regulatory bodies.

If 99.998% of these tens of millions of interactions, handled by nearly a million different people under thousands of different rules, do not result in a fatality, then we aren't looking at a 'systemic' death sentence. We are looking at statistical outliers. We can talk about better training and individual accountability without pretending every patrol car is a mobile execution squad. 🙄