My family saw a police car hit a kid, then I learned how NYPD impunity works

Re:My family saw a police car hit a kid, then I learned how ... by SamReidHughes on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @02:10PM (#23617879)

> Which means your chances of dying during an encounter with a random civilian are about 30 times less than your chance of dying during an encounter with a LEO.

The vast majority of police killings are of people who were armed and chose to get in a fight with them. Even of the few unarmed cases, most of them were asking for it. So if you're just going about minding your own business, the chance is minuscule.

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Re:My family saw a police car hit a kid, then I learned how ... by dragonwriter on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @02:16PM (#23617961)

> The vast majority of police killings are of people who were armed and chose to get in a fight with them

As the NY State report on police-on-police shootings I posted an article about elsewhere in the thread notes, rapidly turning your head to identify the source of a verbal command from a previoisly unseen police officer is the kind of thing that, to police, constitutes non-compliance and choosing to get in a fight with them. Even when you are an off-duty or plainclothes cop who has called for backup, and, much more likely if you are a Black or Latino out-of-uniform cop in that situation.

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Re:My family saw a police car hit a kid, then I learned how ... by SamReidHughes on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @02:23PM (#23618073)

There is a database of police shootings. You can look up a representative sample of cases.

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