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by scythe 2065 days ago
>there are over ~55,000,000 documented police-public encounters in a given year, and ~1,000 cases of lethal force

>The rate of lethal force as a percent of interactions: 0.0000206473%.

Could you explain this number? I get 0.001818%. Did you forget to correct for the factor 100 in giving a percentage?