Washington, March 31 (RHC) -- Police violence in the United States has not decreased and remains the same as last year, according to the organization Mapping Police Violence.

According to the entity, the US police force killed 249 people from January to March 2022, with an average of three deaths per day.

Samuel Sinyangwe, the founder of the nonprofit institution, said that "the shocking regularity of the killings suggests that nothing substantial has changed to interrupt the dynamics of police violence."

Mapping Police Violence also reported that 1,136 people were killed last year at the hands of law enforcement officers, which coincides with a study by The Washington Post, which states that 2021 broke the record for fatal shootings by police officers.

Almost two years after the murder of the African-American George Floyd by law enforcement in Minneapolis, concerns about crime continue to rise in the country, although the Joe Biden administration affirms that it is promoting investments to reverse that trend.

The murders of the 46-year-old African-American, along with those of Breonna Taylor and Trayvon Martin, also victims of violence and racism, have provoked massive demonstrations since 2020 to demand the accountability of the police and the reduction of their scope and power.

Biden promised to back police reform to prevent murders like these, but negotiations on the issue failed in the Senate last September, and the issue is now stalled despite its passage in the lower house.

The Black Lives Matter movement criticized the US chief executive's proposal to allocate only $367 million of his billionaire annual budget to support the reform, which shows "a blatant disregard for his promises to blacks, masked as an effort to diminish the crime".

The Post's Deadly Forces Database shows that approximately 1,000 people in the country are shot and killed by law enforcement each year, and that police shoot and kill black people at twice the rate of white people.