Chauvin was just the eighth cop convicted of murder since 2005, thanks to a system that encourages killer cops.

Officer Derek Chauvin was convicted on all three charges against him in the killing of George Floyd. Since 2005, American cops have killed over 15,000 citizens while on duty. Of the 1,127 people killed by police in 2020, only 277 of them were suspected of a violent offense. The majority of police killings involve calls in which there was no crime or the suspect was only suspected of non-violent offenses. The cops who killed Elijah McClain, Andrew Finch, Kameron Prescott, Daniel Shaver, Charles Roundtree Jr., Stephon Clark, and countless other completely innocent individuals — all got away with it. This is not okay. The verdict is a major victory for police accountability activists and people were literally crying with joy in the streets of Minneapolis. It's just one battle in a war Americans have been losing for decades. The fight for justice will continue to be a long, long way from a victory for justice for all Americans and police accountability is a long way to go, as this verdict shows. The New York City Council removed qualified immunity for bad cops by removing qualified immunity last month. New Mexico followed suit last week. In Maryland, State's Attorney Marilyn Mosby recently announced the war on drugs is over in Baltimore and she is making it a permanent policy to dismiss all criminal charges for the possession of drugs. Since Mosby's policy was implemented a year ago and 1,400 victimless crimes were not prosecuted, crime went down, a lot. Compared to this same time last year, violent crime in the city has dropped 20% while property crime fell a massive 35% compared to the same period before this policy was enacted. Since there have only been 8 cops convicted of murder out of 15,000 killings in the last 15 years, there have been only 8 murders out of 5,000 in the past 15 years. Since the policy has been in place, 911 calls for drug use, prostitution, and public intoxication fell by 33%. Since there has been only one murder conviction out of 7,000 since 2002.