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Re:Zero arrests in 6 months of health care professionals rep... by faitswulff on Thursday February 04, 2021 @09:57PM (#26032536)
This one's fun†, too:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/08/08/police-sh...

"Among men of all races, ages 25 to 29, police killings are the sixth-leading cause of death, according to a study led by Frank Edwards of Rutgers University, with a total annual mortality risk of 1.8 deaths per 100,000 people. Accidental death, a category that includes automotive accidents and drug overdoses, was the biggest cause at 76.6 deaths per 100,000, and followed by suicide (26.7), other homicides (22.0), heart disease (7.0), and cancer (6.3)."

† fun == sickening

Re:Zero arrests in 6 months of health care professionals rep... by manfredo on Friday February 05, 2021 @01:19AM (#26033642)
So for every man killed by police (note that this is all police killings including those of armed suspects fighting the police) there's 42 people killed in accidents, 13 people commit suicide, 11 murdered by normal people's, 3.5 that die of heart disease, and 2 that die of cancer. And this is specifically for the demographic most likely to commit violent crime: young men.

Another way of phrasing this is, "even among the gender and age group most likely to be killed by police, people are an order of magnitude more likely to die of accidents, at the hands of non-police, or by their own hand than at the hands of a police officer."

Re:Zero arrests in 6 months of health care professionals rep... by La1n on Friday February 05, 2021 @06:46AM (#26035299)
Yes? Just because other things happen more often doesn't mean something isn't an issue.
Re:Zero arrests in 6 months of health care professionals rep... by kortilla on Friday February 05, 2021 @07:19AM (#26035500)
That includes violent criminals being shot out of self defense. I wonder what the stat is for murder by cops when the victim didn’t have a deadly weapon.
Re:Zero arrests in 6 months of health care professionals rep... by ROARosen on Thursday February 04, 2021 @10:14PM (#26032649)
It says "police killings are the sixth-leading cause of death".

"Police killings" by definition includes shootouts, when they were fired at fist, seriously threatened with firearms etc.

Sure, police interaction can and should be strongly looked-at and there have been much too much unwarranted deaths by police but just attributing some cause-of-death ranking to police killings without justified/unjustified contextualization is downright misleading.

Re:Zero arrests in 6 months of health care professionals rep... by hn8788 on Thursday February 04, 2021 @10:08PM (#26032606)
If you're aged 25-29 though, what else are you going to die of? Those 6 categories cover pretty much any way you can die except diseases.
Re:Zero arrests in 6 months of health care professionals rep... by faitswulff on Thursday February 04, 2021 @10:11PM (#26032626)
I mean, they could just not be killed.
Re:Zero arrests in 6 months of health care professionals rep... by recursive on Thursday February 04, 2021 @11:15PM (#26033034)
Those cases aren't represented in the list of top causes of death.