According to killedbypolice.net an online website that tracks daily statistics of deaths at the hands of police the police in America have killed 1031 people this year. An average of 3.25 people killed by police everyday. Thats roughly a quarter of the number of soldiers who died in the entirety of the Iraq war and a third of the deaths of U.S. Soldiers in Afghanistan. According to Icasualties.org 4,814 soldiers died during the Iraq occupation and 3,506 have died during the conflict in Afghanistan.

We used to think that we were 8 times more likely to be killed by police but due to information being released in regards to agencies underreporting their officer involved shootings that number has risen significantly. An investigative report by the Guardian reveals that you are now 55 times more likely to die at the hands of a police officer than you are a terrorist.

In light of the Paris terror attack that killed at least 126, I have some observations to share regarding the social media response to such a tragedy. First, I want to share this particular story to help make a point: New evidence emerges showing the US deliberately attacked the Doctors Without Borders hospital in Afghanistan.

...the Associated Press published a report providing further confirmation that the facility was targeted and bombed by US military personnel with full knowledge that it was a functioning hospital. The attack lasted for an hour, destroying the building and killing 30 people, including at least 13 MSF staff members and 10 patients.
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The report follows a previous article citing a former intelligence official who said special operations analysts had mapped the entire area and drawn a circle around the hospital.

The new report adds to the growing body of evidence demonstrating that US forces knowingly and deliberately destroyed a hospital that was performing civilian functions, a grave violation of the Geneva Conventions and a violation of the US War Crimes Act. According to the latter, those found guilty of committing such a crime can be subject to life imprisonment or death.

Among the possible motivations for the attack is the fact that the hospital was the only major medical center in northeastern Afghanistan, and it provided aid to all those injured in the escalating conflict between US forces and the Taliban-led insurgency. Beyond those immediately killed, hundreds or even thousands will die as a result of their loss of access to medical care.

In a statement released on October 23, which reported an increase in the death toll from 22 to 30, MSF noted that the destruction of the hospital "will have a huge impact on access to surgical care for hundreds of thousands of people in the region... Last year, more than 22,000 patients received care at the hospital and more than 5,900 surgeries were performed."

This is only one example among countless others I could use (many much worse), but it's recent and I only need one to make this point. Where were all the "prayers" and "thoughts" for any of these people from most of you posting your condolences about what just happened in Paris? I'm sorry if this offends anyone, or if you feel like I'm trying to take attention away from the lives lost and disrespecting those grieving, but that is the opposite of what I'm doing. I'm trying to honor them.

I'm simply trying to get you to think and to feel deeper, and to expand your circle of empathy beyond Paris in order to grasp the bigger picture of why these attacks happen. This opinion piece gets to the core of some of those reasons: The Age of Despair: Reaping the Whirlwind of Western Support for Extremist Violence. A larger game is at work, one we often do not see.

On Monday, the right-wing campaign to destroy the Social Security program took an odd turn when Republican US Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas claimed the use of Social Security disability benefits was tied to drug addiction.

In a speech before the Heritage Foundation, Senator Cotton took the standard conservative critique on the dangers of dependency to the next level by saying that communities facing population decline and drug addiction should blame "corrosive" Social Security disability benefits for their problems.

Cotton claimed that when enough people in a given area get Social Security disability benefits there is a "disability tipping point" and living on disability benefits "becomes an acceptable way of life." This dynamic, Senator Cotton alleges, leads employers to leave because people are unwilling to work.

Then, according to Senator Cotton, things get even worse:

World leaders responded to Friday's bloody attacks in Paris with outrage and defiant pledges of solidarity, but several countries said they would tighten security, especially at their borders, and a few urged their citizens not to travel to France.

Islamic State claimed responsibility on Saturday for the coordinated assault by gunmen and bombers that killed 127 people across Paris. President Francois Hollande said the attacks amounted to an act of war against France.

Several countries said they had stepped up their own security in response to the attacks, including Belgium and Switzerland, which border France. France's neighbor to the south, Spain, said it was maintaining its state of alert at level 4 on a five-point scale.

A woman who filed a civil rights lawsuit against the Bridgeton, New Jersey Police Department was apparently targeted by the officer who is the central defendant in that suit — and the result was a replay of the incident that precipitated the lawsuit.

On March 31 of this year, Marella Lawson was dragged from her car by a scrum of Bridgeton police officers, pepper-sprayed, had her already-crippled right shoulder injured as her arms were wrenched behind her back, and thrown face-down to the pavement. Because the assailants were police officers, Lawson has been charged with two misdemeanors — resisting arrest and harassment - after initially being charged with felonies.

Lawson, who was pulled over on suspicion of driving with a suspended license, recognized the officer who conducted the traffic stop as Bridgeton Patrol Officer Shane Sawyers, the lead defendant in her ongoing civil rights lawsuit. As she explained in a recent interview with the Philadelphia Fox affiliate, Lawson was afraid to roll down her window and interact with Sawyers because of his behavior during an April 2013 arrest in her home, and because of his "aggressive" behavior during the traffic stop nearly two years later.

The woman was reportedly among those who attacked the Bataclan theatre.

The terrorists who attacked the Bataclan theater in Paris on Friday included a woman, Radio Europe 1 reports citing an eyewitness.

There are no flights cancelled to and from Paris airports, according to the press office of Aeroports de Paris, representing Paris-Orly and Paris-Charles de Gaulle.

Flights to and from Paris airports continued on Saturday despite a state of emergency in France, following a series of deadly attacks on Friday night, the local airport authority told Sputnik.

"There are no flights cancelled," the press office of Aeroports de Paris, representing Paris-Orly and Paris-Charles de Gaulle, said.

You couldn't make this up: some 1,000 emergency workers and volunteers who responded after a Germanwings flight crashed in the Alps in March were at the Stade de France last night as a reward for their hard work during the tragedy.

They were taken to see the France v Germany friendly on a chartered train by Lufthansa, which owns Germanwings.

Airbus communications chief Rainer Ohler, who was at the stadium along with the company's chief executive Tom Enders, said:

It was supposed to be an evening of French and German celebration and appreciation after that tragic event. We heard the explosions and at first nobody thought of terrorism.

It was only when President Hollande left and people started getting phone messages that we realised what was going on.

Enders said Airbus stood united against "barbarian attacks".

Nous sommes unis! (We are united!) We are all impacted by the tragic terror attacks in Paris. Our thoughts are with the victims, their families and all the people in Paris.

As the French authorities are trying to piece together the set of events that brought about the deadliest terrorist act on home soil, Friday night's survivors are recalling the details of horrific attacks that claimed the lives of over 150 people in Paris.

The worst carnage during Paris' Friday 13 shooting spree took place at a concert hall that was hosting an American rock band. Hundreds of people were held hostage for several hours before the attackers detonated explosive belts. At least 120 people died as special forces stormed the building, killing at least three attackers.

After the dust settled, witnesses who are being questioned by the police, told French publications that the motive behind the theater attack is extremist retaliation against French involvement in the Middle East and Africa.

The new rookie at one New York police department weighs 60 pounds, has a big, lolling tongue, a soft caramel coat and a chance to fight stereotypes in addition to crime.

When she graduates Friday from K9 training school, Kiah will be one of just a few pit bulls to serve as a police dog. It's a job usually given to breeds that don't come with the pit bull's reputation — deserved or not — as a savage animal fit only for the company of criminals.

"The breed isn't important," said Brad Croft, who trains dogs for law enforcement and the military and found Kiah in a Texas animal shelter after her previous owner was arrested for animal cruelty. "It's what's inside of the dog that's important."