[unnouinceput]

Quote: "The rate of lethal force against the total U.S. population: 0.00000343477%"

I would argue that anything above 0.00% is wrong. Police must and should always use non-lethal approach. Regardless of their situation. Sound / visual / sensory approach would incapacitate the violent persona and bring it to justice. Police in now way should be granted judge and executioner roles.

We are either consider life precious or not at all. No middle ground.

[alehul]

We should reduce it as much as we can, but this is a country of >300,000,000 with >6,000,000 crimes occurring each year.

Of the percent I cited, >90% of that lethal force is against an armed individual.

I don't know what sensory approach could prevent every single death, when there are so many cases of violence in this country.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6080222/

[unnouinceput]

What are you talking about? Shooting syrings instead of bullets to incapacitate is one low cost that can easily be deployed. Not to mention a plethora of all other non-lethal weaponry that exists. Another is this, though less economical viable: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Denial_System.

Where there is a will...

[d1sxeyes]

So 0.00000343477% IS below 0.00%.

[unnouinceput]

https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=0.00000343477%25+%3C+0...

Result: False

[d1sxeyes]

I should be clearer:

There are values of 0.00000343477% which are below 0.00%.