A whopping 54,500 people were killed or hospitalized by cops in a single year compared to approximately 14,000 deaths caused by overdosing on heroin, cocaine and methamphetamine combined. Judging from this astounding comparison one can determine it is much safer to snort coke, inject smack, and smoke crystal than it is to be searched or arrested by an American cop.

A new study published in a British Medical Journal specified, in 2012, U.S. police killed or seriously injured 54,500 people during arrest or search situations. The international peer-reviewed journal for health professionals cites, "On average, an estimated 1 in 291 stops/arrests resulted in hospital-treated injury or death of a suspect or bystander."

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TheFreeThoughtProject.com, a popular police accountability website and friend of NeverGetBusted, quoted Dr. Ted Miller who was the leading author of the paper. Miller stated,
"In one in eleven cases where someone died because someone else intentionally shot them, a police officer is the one who pulled the trigger."

CNN reports that Dr. Miller was "surprised to find that on a typical day, about three people die and 150 are injured during incidents involving police nationwide."

These unbelievable and conscience shocking figures continue. CopCrisis.com keeps a "death by cop" counter on their front-page that reports cops kill an American citizen every 7 hours. In 2015 cops killed 1307 Americans and have already shot down or choked to death 868 humans in the first ten months of 2016.

The mortality rate for certain combined drug overdoses are approximated at only 13,200 in the same year. In comparison, this number is minuscule when set side by side to the number of cops killing and seriously injuring civilians.

Graphs published by the National Center For Health Statistics, CDC Wonder, show in 2012, approximately 4,500 persons overdosed to death from cocaine and 6,000 perished from heroin. In 2013 and coming in last place, only 2,700 persons fatally overdosed on methamphetamine.

One is unable to determine the number of meth deaths in 2012 because the CDC did not report these incidences prior to 2013.

One famous philosophy insists citizens can police themselves better than uniformed government agents. This growing portion of the population rationalizes the Drug War must end and police must stop patrolling in search of citizens to arrest. Instead, the bad boys should act like nice fireman and remain in their offices.

When a crime is committed against persons or property, cops can be called who arrive at the crime scene as detectives. These true servants can then gather evidence and hopefully capture the perpetrators. This philosophy is not hard to accept considering police catch less than one percent of violent crimes in progress.

One can't be certain what scale is used when considering if a country is officially a police state or not. We do know "The Land of the Free" numerically and proportionately holds the all time world record for the number of citizens it incarcerates. Since there are no other countries in the world boasting this type of police violence, one can logically classify the United States as a nation ruled, commanded and dominated by law enforcement.

Since it's been established that using narcotics is safer than using cops, we should all seriously ponder the question asked during the opener of the cable T.V. reality show that features cops as heroes, "Watcha gonna do when they come for you?"

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Update:

I received a critique in the comments after publishing this article. A valid point was raised so I'm including parts of my rebuttal here. I really care about the reputation of my content so thanks to @modprobe for calling me out.

When I published this article, I was aware I compared deaths and hospitalizations by police to deaths by narcotics. I almost explained this statistical can of worms before publishing but I didn't want to bore the reader. I realize now I should have. My bad.

I fully agree cops killed 1307 citizens in one year and the three drugs mentioned only killed about 14,000. Despite this truth, my claim stands: "Using drugs is safer than using cops."

Tons and tons of cocaine are imported into the U.S. each day. We can determine millions and millions of Americans have daily used cocaine for decades and still do. In comparison, that number of humans are not daily arrested and searched by cops. This means an exponentially higher number of people use cocaine than who are arrested or searched.

This is only considering cocaine users and not the millions of daily heroin and methamphetamine users. Proportionately, it's valid to say snorting coke, shooting heroin and smoking crystal is much safer than snorting, shooting or smoking a cop. Puns not intended. lol.

As stated in the original article, the U.S. has incarcerated more citizens than any country in history...numerically and proportionately. China has one Billion more in population yet we have more prisoners. The U.S. has 5% of the world's population but houses 25% of the world's inmates in their prison camps. Over 40 million people have been caged for drug crimes and their are currently over 2 million in prison at this time.

Cocaine, heroin or meth have never thrown a user in a cage. I have been jailed on many occasions and can testify sometimes death would be better than jail. American jails and prisons are pure torture dungeons. Along with cops killing 1307 citizens, they have also tortured millions and millions of people and narcotics haven't.

Future readers of this article deserve to hear more support of my claims. I am always looking for ways to improve so I sincerely appreciate people who take their time to call me out.

Peace and big love @modprobe.