Inequality deteriorated. The wealth gap continued to widen in the United States. According to the World Income Inequality Database, the United States has the highest Gini coefficient (measuring inequality) of all Western Countries. In the OECD, the United States ranks 35th out of 37 in terms of poverty and inequality (, December 15, 2017). In a report showing the share of U.S. household wealth by income level, Deutsche Bank's chief international economist Torsten Slok said the top 0.1 percent of American households hold about the same amount of wealth as the bottom 90 percent (, January 25, 2017). Boston Review's website reported on Sept. 1, 2017 that while the income of those in the bottom 80 percent of America has grown only by about 25 percent in the last four decades, it has almost doubled for the top 20 percent. The United Nations monitor on poverty and human rights accused the U.S. leadership of attempting to turn the country into the "world champion of extreme inequality" (, December 15, 2017).

美国有线电视新闻网2017年9月1日报道，佐治亚州一名已有20年警龄的白人警官格雷格·阿伯特拦检一位白人女性司机，当被拦截的司机表示因担心警察开枪而不敢挪动双手时，阿伯特脱口而出：“你不是黑人。记住，我们只杀黑人。”美联社2017年9月8日报道，费城警察局6名非洲裔警察对上级警官提出涉及种族主义的投诉，称这些白人警官将非洲裔公民称为“人渣”，将杀害非洲裔公民称为“减少牲畜存栏数”。

（注38）英国《卫报》网站（https://www.theguardian.com），2017年6月30日。

——普林斯顿大学政治学教授马丁·吉伦斯的研究表明，过去40年来美国的经济政策“强烈反映了最富有者的偏好，而与贫困人口和中等收入群体的偏好几乎没有任何关系”。

-- Violent victimization against persons with disabilities. According to statistics released in July 2017 by the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics, the rate of violent victimization against persons with disabilities was 2.5 times higher than that for persons without disabilities above 12 years old between 2009 and 2015. The rate of violent crimes against persons with disabilities tripled that for persons without disabilities (). According to statistics from the 2016 FBI Hate Crime Statistics Program released in 2017, out of the 6,063 single-bias incidents reported in 2016, 1.2 percent of them were prompted by disability bias ().

网络监控侵犯个人隐私。英国《每日邮报》网站2017年4月6日报道，推特公司2017年3月收到行政命令，要求其提供反对美国总统强硬移民政策的账户使用者的信息，政府并未给出任何理由。该公司认为，政府是在滥用法律。《纽约时报》网站2017年9月13日报道，2016年10月至2017年3月，美国边检强制搜查手机和电脑近15000次，比2015年同期的8383次大幅提升。英国《独立报》网站2017年9月27日报道，美国政府宣布将继续收集移民的社交媒体信息。丹佛大学法学副教授塞萨尔·赫尔南德斯认为，监控社交媒体账户会对言论自由产生可怕的影响。美国司法部对发生在总统就职日的抗议活动展开调查，要求“梦的主人”公司交出负责协调抗议活动网站130万访问者的IP地址。（注11）

（注19） 皮尤研究中心网站（），2017年7月25日。

Money politics in United States has gone further in 2017, as the wealthy groups controlled the political development; the disadvantaged groups faced more barriers in voting; and continuous scandals of political figures happened.

III. Severe flaws in American-style democracy

China published a report on the United States' human rights situation on Tuesday. The report, titled "Human Rights Record of the United States in 2017," was released by the Information Office of the State Council. Following is the full text of the report: