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Police shootings in US out of hand

Agencies
President Barack Obama will seek to release funds aimed at equipping more US police officers with body cameras following the racially charged fatal shooting of a black teenager in Ferguson, the White House said Monday.
The August death of 18-year-old Michael Brown in Missouri revived long-standing questions about how police, especially white officers, interact with African Americans.
However, the president - who met with civil rights and law enforcement leaders amid ongoing protests over a grand jury decision not to charge the white police officer in the shooting - ruled out reducing federal sales of surplus military equipment to police forces.
The difference in the number of killings in the US and the rest of the world is startling. While police in other major countries typically kill a few people every year, the numbers here are enormous.
In the US, hundreds of people are killed by law enforcement every year. A large percentage of them are mentally ill. And although all ethnic groups have become
victims, minorities are getting shot in numbers much greater than their proportion in the population.
On average, at least one person is killed by a cop every day in the US. In contrast, not a single one was killed in Britain last year, where police fired their guns a grand total of
three times, according to The Economist. In 2011, when the FBI reported 404 justifiable law enforcement homicides in the US, police killed six people in Australia, two in England, six in Germany.
How many people are shot by police every year? Nobody seems to know the exact
number (something that is itself disturbing - no official government agency tracks the full data for the entire country).
The FBI, compiling voluntarily submitted data from 750 out of 17,000 law enforcement agencies, reports about400 "justifiable homicides’ by police each year. That figure, of course, is incomplete and does not include killings deemed "unjustifiable," orshootings that do not result in death.
Unfortunately there are far too many cases where our consciences have been shocked. Take the case of a man widely reported to have had mental health issues, who was shot and killed not far from Ferguson after allegedly stealing a doughnut and a couple of energy drinks just two weeks after Michael Brown's death. He asked police "Shoot me! Shoot me!" What he likely needed was medical care.
Many will have seen the images of a 12-year-old boy who was shot last month in Cleveland after someone called police saying he was pointing a gun at people. The caller reportedly added that the gun was probably fake. It was indeed a toy, but the boy is dead.
There has to be a better way.