I'm an American expat living in the UK, so I am interested in judging things on comparative rather than absolute terms.
In the UK, the police are on track to have killed 3 people in 2015[1]. In the US, the police are on track to have killed 1,200 people[2]. Adjusted for population, the US has a police homicide rate that is 79 times higher than in the UK. In some places, police violence is now the no. 1 form of homicide, ahead of gang violence, petty crime, domestic violence, child abuse, and any other category of violence.[3]
Actual homicide is just the tip of the iceberg, of course, but if this doesn't qualify as "significantly and often" then I'm not sure what does.
This is not just a civilian attitude. There are plenty of (ex-) police who feel this way too.[4]
1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_killings_by_law_enforc...
2: http://killedbypolice.net/
3: http://www.sltrib.com/news/1842489-155/killings-by-utah-poli...
4: https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2014/12/06/...
In the UK, the police are on track to have killed 3 people in 2015[1]. In the US, the police are on track to have killed 1,200 people[2]. Adjusted for population, the US has a police homicide rate that is 79 times higher than in the UK. In some places, police violence is now the no. 1 form of homicide, ahead of gang violence, petty crime, domestic violence, child abuse, and any other category of violence.[3]
Actual homicide is just the tip of the iceberg, of course, but if this doesn't qualify as "significantly and often" then I'm not sure what does.
This is not just a civilian attitude. There are plenty of (ex-) police who feel this way too.[4]
1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_killings_by_law_enforc...
2: http://killedbypolice.net/
3: http://www.sltrib.com/news/1842489-155/killings-by-utah-poli...
4: https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2014/12/06/...