About 1,000 times a year out of over 300,000,000 people. It needs to stop, but it is not a factor in the lives of normal people. It’s accepted because there are 500,000,000 guns in America, so the idea of a heavily armed police force makes some sense. In general, Americans believe that the police would not hurt them, so they are not scared. Media intensifies every bad example (and of course foreigners only see the craziest instances reported outside the country).
