警察滥用执法权力。美国联邦调查局2017年发布的数据显示，2016年美国执法部门共实施10662252次逮捕（不包括违反交通规则的逮捕），平均每十万居民中有3298.5人被逮捕。（注6）据《华盛顿邮报》网站统计，2017年美国有987人被警察枪击致死。（注7）《华盛顿邮报》网站2017年7月26日报道，两名警察在执行逮捕令的过程中走错地址，枪杀了一名无辜者，而受害人并无任何犯罪记录。皮尤研究中心2017年1月11日披露，在过去两年中有近500名非洲裔美国人被警方枪杀。（注8）《赫芬顿邮报》网站2017年11月7日报道，纽约两名警员在搜查毒品的过程中，将一名藏有大麻的女子扣留在警车里并实施了轮奸。

腐败丑闻爆发。2017年的一项调查显示，近六成美国人认为美国政府的腐败水平上升了，近七成受访者认为政府在反腐败方面是失败的。哥伦比亚广播公司新闻网站2017年3月14日报道，有9名军官因涉嫌卷入贿赂丑闻而受到起诉，其中包括已经退休的布鲁斯·拉夫莱斯上将。作为利益交换，他们接受了一名承包商提供的贿赂，包括妓女服务、奢华宴席和豪华旅游。该贿赂案目前已有超过20名前任或现任海军军官面临指控。

（注36）“商业内幕”网站（），2017年1月25日。

Racial wealth gap becomes larger. According to data released by the Federal Reserve in September last year, between 2013 and 2016, wealth gap between black and white families grew by 16 percent during that time, and by 14 percent between Hispanics and whites. In 2016, white families had a median net worth of 171,000 U.S. dollars, compared with 17,600 U.S. dollars for blacks and 20,700 U.S. dollars for Hispanics, accounting for 10.29 percent and 12.11 percent of that for white families respectively (, September 28, 2017). The report issued by the Economic Policy Institute on February 13, 2017, said that more than one in four black households have zero or negative net worth (, February 13, 2017). The median income for an African American household was 39,490 U.S. dollars in 2016, according to U.S. Census Bureau data released in September 2017, even 1,873 U.S. dollars less than that in 2000. African Americans are the only racial group the Census Bureau identifies that has been left behind than the year of 2000 (, September 15, 2017).

（注41）英国《卫报》网站（https://www.theguardian.com），2017年12月15日。

White nationalist protesters sparked violent confrontations. In August 2017, some white nationalists and right-wing protesters converged on Charlottesville, Virginia, shouting "blood and soil," a phrase invoking the Nazi philosophy (edition.cnn.com, August 12, 2017). White nationalist James Alex Fields Jr., 20, drove a car plowing into a group of protesters against white nationalists, killing one person and injuring 19 others (, August 12, 2017). According to a report by the Telegraph on August 13, 2017, U.S. civil rights groups described the riot as America's "largest hate gathering in decades." On August 23, Anastasia Crickley, Chairperson of UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD), said that "We are alarmed by the racist demonstrations, with overtly racist slogans, chants and salutes by white nationalists, neo-Nazis, and the Ku Klux Klan, promoting white supremacy and inciting racial discrimination and hatred." UN rights experts criticized U.S. government's failure to unequivocally reject racist violent events, and called on high-level politicians and public officials of the United States to unequivocally and unconditionally reject and condemn racist hate speech and crimes in Charlottesville and throughout the country (, August 23, 2017).

Democratic politics went weakening. An expert survey on American democracy showed that 89 percent of respondents believed the democratic quality in the United States had declined over the last 10 years (, June 28, 2017). The Atlantic website reported on June 21, 2017 that most interviewees of a survey on U.S. democracy disagreed that the U.S. met standards for granting citizens an equal opportunity to vote, stopping officials from exploiting their public office for private gain, and conducting politics and formulating policy.

On April 20 local time, the State Department of the United States released its country reports on human rights practices for 2017, posing once again as "the guardian of human rights" and a self-styled "human rights judge." It continued to point fingers and cast groundless blame on the domestic affairs and human rights situation of other countries as if it had the most perfect human rights condition in the world. However, looking back on the year of 2017, even those with the slightest sense of righteousness will find that the human rights record of the United States itself remained tarnished and showed a continued deterioration tendency.

（注54）《今日美国报》网站（https://www.usatoday.com），2017年12月13日。

（注24）《洛杉矶时报》网站（），2017年9月15日。

（注25）皮尤研究中心网站（），2017年11月15日。

（注1）美国联邦调查局网站（https://www.fbi.gov，https://ucr.fbi.gov），2017年9月。

The life of the homeless was miserable. The Guardian's website reported on December 6, 2017 that 553,742 people were homeless on a single night in the United States last year, with an increase of 4.1 percent in New York. In a homeless encampment in Los Angeles, approximately 1,800 homeless people shared just nine toilets located in stalls without doors at night (, June 30, 2017). Matthew Desmond's book Evicted said millions of Americans were evicted each year as they struggled to make rent: these people were the true forgotten poor (, February 24, 2017).

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