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Re:De-Escalation Keeps Protesters and Police Safer by vertex-four on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @02:22AM (#23388153)
> This has happened, incrementally.

Do you have statistics that show that? Are more cops charged and imprisoned after murdering unarmed people every year, or does the number of unarmed murdered people go down, at all? People who die mysteriously in custody?

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Re:De-Escalation Keeps Protesters and Police Safer by Joeri on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @07:12AM (#23389767)
“Fatal police shootings of unarmed people have significantly declined, experts say”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/fatal-police-s...

However, the overall trend in police killings is flat.

https://mappingpoliceviolence.org/nationaltrends

Interestingly:

“White Police Officers Are Not More Likely To Shoot Minority Suspects”

https://www.npr.org/2019/07/26/745731839/new-study-says-whit...

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Re:De-Escalation Keeps Protesters and Police Safer by nolsoniente on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @07:22AM (#23389852)
And you dont need to be black to get suffocated by police https://www.dallasnews.com/news/investigations/2019/07/31/yo...
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Re:De-Escalation Keeps Protesters and Police Safer by TeaDrunk on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @07:52AM (#23390029)
According to from what I understand fatal police shootings have declined in dense cities but have increased everywhere else.
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