The Insurance Path to Reducing Police Violence
If you think that police violence has increased recently, you’re right: between July 17 and August 12, five unarmed black men died at the hands of police in New York, Ohio, Missouri and California,. The worst one was the killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri on August 9. Brown’s death led to demonstrations, looting, and some of the most extreme examples of police militarization yet seen. It took a week before Missouri’s Governor and the state police could bring some sort of calm to the outraged community.
