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by squidlogic
1679 days ago
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Probably referring to this Washington Post data set: https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/investigations/polic... If you query the data set it looks like 38 unarmed black men were shot by police in 2015. To determine likelihood of a random “black porch pirate” being shot by police, we should look at the % of police encounters that end in unarmed shoots. I found a random quota post [1] that says the number of police encounters in 2015 was around 53,469,300. Back of a cocktail napkin numbers show that we’re talking about something in the neighborhood of .00006% of encounters end in an unarmed black person being shot by the police. [1] https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-estimated-number-of-police... |
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If there's a virus that hit a billion people, where 100 of them are people with blue hair, and there were 110 deaths, 90 of them being blue-haired people and 20 from the rest of the billion, if you had blue hair would you be extra worried?
sure it only kills 0.0..something..09% of people, but...
Edit: thanks for the downvotes. Of course the numbers are exaggerated, but it's to make a point.
If you want to do some maths, please give a percentage of black police encounters that end up with the black person being shot, and compare that with other races. The first number is probably very low as well, but my instinct is that the comparison will be shocking.
In any case, police in the US are woefully undertrained hotheads. In contrast, I saw a video today from Europe where a suicidal woman had a knife and officers around her. One of them pepper-sprayed her, it didn't work, and suddenly another hit her with a big fencepole that he pulled out of the ground. She was a threat to mostly herself, and luckily they didn't neutralize the threat by a bullet that could've been fatal.