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Re:There's a growing call to defund the police. Here's what ... by throwaway894345 on Sunday June 07, 2020 @10:48AM (#23447719)
Probably because of the relatively easy access to guns in the US. Statistically you have a 0.00029% chance of being shot and killed by a police officer in a given year, and that rate falls to 0.00001% if you aren’t armed and it probably falls another two orders of magnitude if you obey the law. The likelihood that you will be killed in a car accident in the US in a given year is 0.01% or 1000-100000 times more likely than being shot/killed by police. Two things can be true: the American system is imperfect and the American system is still relatively safe.
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Re:There's a growing call to defund the police. Here's what ... by chrisseaton on Sunday June 07, 2020 @11:45AM (#23448173)
> Statistically you have a 0.00029% chance of being shot and killed by a police officer in a given year ... the American system is still relatively safe

What do you think is the chance of being killed by shot and killed by police in countries that don't arm their police like they're in a war zone, like the UK?

A lot lower, at around 0.000005%.

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Re:There's a growing call to defund the police. Here's what ... by throwaway894345 on Sunday June 07, 2020 @12:07PM (#23448321)
Yes, it’s a difficult political problem in the US. Americans aren’t willing to sacrifice thousands of additional homicide victims annually (by disarming the police) in order to save a handful when the latter can be saved by better vetting, training, accountability, etc. We’re trying to minimize for loss of life, not just for loss of life by police.
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Re:There's a growing call to defund the police. Here's what ... by chrisseaton on Sunday June 07, 2020 @12:14PM (#23448381)
> We’re trying to minimize for loss of life, not just for loss of life by police.

Do you realise that the general homicide rate in the UK is also lower, at 1.2 per 100,000, compared to 4.96 in the US?

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Re:There's a growing call to defund the police. Here's what ... by throwaway894345 on Sunday June 07, 2020 @01:23PM (#23448904)
I am aware. Your mistake is thinking that disparity is caused by a disarmed police force.
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