As a cop, I killed someone. Then I found out it happens more often than we know Thomas Owen Baker
about 5 years in The guardian
I’m a former officer who studies police violence. Most databases vastly undercount the number of civilians killed by US police
In 2005, I joined the police department in Phoenix, Arizona. I became a police officer for the health insurance and economic security, and because the people I’d looked up to as a working-class kid had told me being a cop was a respectable career. I was married with two small children and saw policing as one of the few remaining paths to the middle class available to an army veteran without a college degree.
Becoming a police officer was an easy transition. As a former Army Ranger, the training, male-dominated culture and paramilitary structure of the police academy felt like home. I loved it, and became completely engrossed in police culture. I viewed myself as a member of a special brotherhood, protecting sheep from wolves. Continue reading...
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