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Re:‘No One Saw a Thing’: When a Midwest Town Banded Together... by areyousure on Friday August 09, 2019 @04:10PM (#20657872)
> In the US, the police kills more than 1000 citizens each year

In case anyone is curious to see a source, the Washington Post attempts to collect data regarding police shootings: https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/four-years-in-...

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Re:‘No One Saw a Thing’: When a Midwest Town Banded Together... by new_realist on Saturday August 10, 2019 @12:58AM (#20660269)
To put this in context, roughly 70 police were killed last year, and police made over ten million arrests. Your chance of being killed is roughly once in 10,000 arrests.
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Re:‘No One Saw a Thing’: When a Midwest Town Banded Together... by chii on Saturday August 10, 2019 @09:06AM (#20661825)
I wonder what the number are like if the data is filtered to person of colour only.
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