Police officers are supposed to be the ones protecting us, however, in the recent years many have lost in touch with their true duties and have become power hungry. In the first 9 months of this year, United States police have killed 776 people, 161 of whom were unarmed and posed no threat to the police officer. However, numbers don’t mean anything when you have nothing else to compare to. Comparing to previous years, police killed 397 people in the United States in 2010. Many people want to argue that these are justified killings over the years, however the crime rates have stayed the same, while the rates of police abuse have gone up. Not only have the numbers increased, but we’ve come to know that officers are not required to report misconduct to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The reports to the FBI are part of its uniform crime reporting program. Local law-enforcement agencies aren’t required to participate. Some localities turn over crime statistics, but not detailed records describing each homicide, which is the only way particular kinds of killings, including those by police, are tracked by the