Re:Venezuelan Opposition Leaders Detained at Gunpoint in Raids
by meri_dian on Tuesday August 01, 2017 @09:55AM
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Police killings are hardly equivalent to gang and cartel killings.
Gangs murder people out of cold blood.
The overwhelming majority of police killings involve people who present an immediate danger to the innocent and are violent, dangerous criminals.
Re:Venezuelan Opposition Leaders Detained at Gunpoint in Raids
by tyingq on Tuesday August 01, 2017 @10:17AM
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That's generally true, but there are places where the police and cartels are intermingled.
Re:Venezuelan Opposition Leaders Detained at Gunpoint in Raids
by meri_dian on Tuesday August 01, 2017 @10:42AM
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Yes, I was writing about the US specifically
Re:Venezuelan Opposition Leaders Detained at Gunpoint in Raids
by MichaelGG on Tuesday August 01, 2017 @09:51AM
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In 2014, estimated murders in US is about 14,249. Estimated people killed by police is 1111 according to one site. So a 7-8% increase.
Washington Post has a neat interactive page I came across. The most shocking thing is the unashamed misandry when it comes to police killings. This year, only 25 women were killed versus 556 men. That's rather ... disproportional.
https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2014/crime-in-the-u.s.-...
http://www.killedbypolice.net/kbp2014
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/national/police-shoo...
Re:Venezuelan Opposition Leaders Detained at Gunpoint in Raids
by icebraining on Tuesday August 01, 2017 @09:50AM
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http://killedbypolice.net/ provides the numbers for the US (it's up to 714 this year - 23 more than last year by this date).
Last year the US police killed 1162 persons, so that's a rate of 0.36 per 100k inhabitants.
If the cartel is filling the void (granted the things they enforce are different) then you may as well make it an equal comparison.
I really wonder how the US graph would look if you included people killed by police.