Congress should pass legislation to create national standards for policing to regulate local and state police departments so violence-prone and violence-craving individuals don't end up as cops.

As the horror of the police murder of Tyre Nichols washes across our TV screens, we're reminded again of the crisis, it's severity unique to America among developed nations, of police violence...

You and I are 30 times more likely to be killed by police than are citizens of Germany or Great Britain. In 2018, for example, police killed over 1000 people in America. In Germany cops killed 11; in Australia 8; in Sweden 6; in the UK it was 3 people; and cops killed only 1 person in New Zealand.

The reasons for this disparity are deeply systemic.

Read more at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom

Friday's Daily Stack

Article: "We've Seen Enough People Murdered By American Police: It's Time for Genuine Reform" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Militarization and police violence: The case of the 1033 program" by Casey Delehanty et al.

Article: "How Police Brutality in the U.S. Compares to Other Countries" by Rachel Fairbank.

Article: "‘Failure For Our Democracy': Senate Fails To Advance Police Reform Dropping The Ball On George Floyd Justice In Policing Act" by Anoa Changa.

Book: Death in the Pines: An Oakley Tyler Novel by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "How Police Compare in Different Democracies" by Amelia Cheatham and Lindsay Maizland.

Article: "American police shoot, kill and imprison more people than other developed countries. Here's the data" by American police shoot, kill and imprison more people than other developed countries. Here's the data.

Article: "Eliminating this federal program would play a major part in demilitarizing the police" by Talib Visram.

Article: "HIPAA for Professionals" by HHS.

Article: "7 ways to fix America's broken policing system, according to experts" by Isaac Scher.

Article: "Qualified Immunity" by LII.

Article: "How America's Police Became an Army: The 1033 Program" by Taylor Wofford.

Article: "Police Education And Training Systems In The OSCE Region" by OSCE.

Article: "Worse than Rodney King: Tyre Nichols' stepfather describes in grim detail the 'horrific' video of beating by police" by Tom Boggioni.

Article: "The Doomsday Clock reveals how close we are to total annihilation" by Megan Marples, Kristen Rogers and Rachel Ramirez.

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Article: "Colbert elegantly rips Fox News' claims that Xbox is ‘grooming' kids over energy-saving mode" by Rebekah Sager.

Article: "ABC News: Newly listed treasurer on Santos filings says his name was used without his consent" by Charles Jay.

Article: "Trump's false or misleading claims total 30,573 over 4 years" by Glenn Kessler, Salvador Rizzo and Meg Kelly.

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Article: "Milton Friedman" by Wikipedia.

Book: "The Hidden History of Neoliberalism: How Reaganism Gutted America and How to Restore Its Greatness" by Thom Hartmann.

Book: "The Hidden History of Guns and the Second Amendment" by Thom Hartmann.

Book: The Hidden History of American Healthcare: Why Sickness Bankrupts You and Makes Others Insanely Rich by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Medicare Advantage" (Medicare Part C) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Stop the Medicare "Advantage" Scam Before Medicare is Dead" by Thom Hartmann.

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Article: "Paul Manafort" by Wikipedia.

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Article: "Background on Judge Merrick Garland" by Obama White House.

Article: "Secret Tapes Reveal LBJ Knew But Never Spoke Out About Nixon's Alleged 'Treason'" by Connor Simpson.

Article: "Tyre Nichols video live updates: Memphis set to release bodycam video" by NBC News.

Article: "Killing of George Floyd" by Wikipedia.

Article: "U.S. Court Vacates Qualified Immunity in Excessive Force Case of 5 Police Officers" by John Raby .

Article: "House passes bill named in honor of George Floyd aimed at preventing police misconduct" by Clare Foran.

Article: "Bishop Barber, West Virginia Poor People's Campaign challenge Manchin, Capito to wash feet of poor, low-income people on Maundy Thursday" by Poor People's Campaign.

Article: "In the New "McCarthy Era," This Column Could Get Me Thrown In Jail" by Thom Hartmann.

Video: First #SDEC meeting of 2023 for the Alabama Democratic Party.

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Article: "Radio Show" by Mike Feder.

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Article: "The Continued Survival of Louis DeJoy" by David Dayen.

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Video: Why America's $31.4T debt is a crisis.

Article: "Nixon's Southern strategy" by James Boyd.

Article: "Qualified immunity" by Wikipedia.

Article: "The Turner Diaries" by Wikipedia.

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Article: "Timothy McVeigh" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Historical U.S. Federal Individual Income Tax Rates & Brackets, 1862-2021" by Tax Foundation.

Article: "Wonking Out: Inflation and the Imputation Game" by Paul Krugman.

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Article: "Stop Cowering Before This Half-Bright Florida Fascist" by Hamilton Nolan.

Article: "A Media Ceiling is about to Fall In On Democrats" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Crimea" by Wikipedia.

Article: "‘Fascism': The Word's Meaning and History" by Merriam-Webster.

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