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Re:Americans' perceptions of police drop significantly in on... by mythrwy on Saturday June 06, 2020 @09:09PM (#23443826)
Here's something I found interesting.

I'm not sure how it got calculated because police kill around 1,000 people a year in the US and about 300 black people a year in the US.

https://www.pnas.org/content/116/34/16793

According to this the chance of black male being killed by police (over lifetime?) is 1 in 1000. The chance of a white male being killed is 1 in 2000. The chance of a female being killed is 1 in 33000.

I'm not sure what to say here. Are more men getting killed because men behave more violently (well probably)? Or are more men getting killed because of some bias?

Re:Americans' perceptions of police drop significantly in on... by tartoran on Saturday June 06, 2020 @09:21PM (#23443896)
Clearly theres a bias against men, even if they’re not violent they’re perceived as more dangerous because they’re potentially stronger. Men are also more likely to be part of a gang, women, not so much. Now add the race to the mix and black and hispanic men are very high on their radar. We’ve been hearing of racial profiling complaints for a while, for at least 15-20, it is a true thing.
Re:Americans' perceptions of police drop significantly in on... by SamReidHughes on Saturday June 06, 2020 @09:24PM (#23443916)
Look at the question case by case, instead of statistically. You can see that almost all are killed as a result of their own violent behavior towards police or others.
Re:Americans' perceptions of police drop significantly in on... by ClumsyPilot on Saturday June 06, 2020 @10:23PM (#23444259)
It appears US police kills more people than police in Russia, or is roughly on par. Most years police in UK kills zero. Do you want to compete with authoritarian states in number of deaths caused by police?
Re:Americans' perceptions of police drop significantly in on... by SamReidHughes on Saturday June 06, 2020 @10:41PM (#23444343)
There were ten cases of unarmed black Americans killed by police in 2019. Which of those killings do you disagree with?
Re:Americans' perceptions of police drop significantly in on... by ClumsyPilot on Saturday June 06, 2020 @11:24PM (#23444525)
Do you understand that US police kills people at a rate thats totally unseen outside of dictatorships and bana republics? Not just black people - white people, asians, there is no demographic who's deathrate is acceptable for a developed nation.

Why is that? Either us police is out control, or you have some sort of mass-criminal-psycosis going on over there, and it stops at the canadian border.

You want to go case by case? Explain how can police kill a woman sleeping in her house. To me this is unbelievable. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna12...

Re:Americans' perceptions of police drop significantly in on... by SamReidHughes on Saturday June 06, 2020 @11:53PM (#23444625)
Yes, I want you to go case by case, and understand what most of them are like, instead of picking just those that are examples of bad policing.

> Either us police is out control, or you have some sort of mass-criminal-psycosis going on over there,

Why not both? We do have police problems. We also have mass criminal psychosis. (Just look at the news recently...)

Re:Americans' perceptions of police drop significantly in on... by ramblenode on Sunday June 07, 2020 @12:38AM (#23444799)
> Which of those killings do you disagree with?

Wouldn't it be nice if there were an independent review board to look over mandatory body cam footage from an incident so we don't have to have speculative internet debates over what happened? And fair legal recourse for victims of officers who break the law so that people don't feel the need to seek out justice on their own?

Re:Americans' perceptions of police drop significantly in on... by komali2 on Saturday June 06, 2020 @09:14PM (#23443851)
> I'm not sure what to say here. Are more men getting killed because men behave more violently (well probably)? Or are more men getting killed because of some bias?

If you're taking feedback here mine would be to avoid drawing such enormous conclusion from such a minimal, uncontextualized set of data.