Re:Each Firefox download has a unique identifier
by ashwagary on Thursday March 17, 2022 @10:19PM
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The thousands of people a year murdered by local police (many of whom are unarmed and innocent) would probably disagree.
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Re:Each Firefox download has a unique identifier
by UberFly on Friday March 18, 2022 @01:56AM
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You should at least attempt to use real statistics in your comments.
Re:Each Firefox download has a unique identifier
by ashwagary on Friday March 18, 2022 @08:48AM
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Nothing I said requires a statistic, it is common knowledge US police officers kill roughly 1000 civilians a year on average.
It is also clear from investigative reporting that many police departments have a long history of colluding with local coroners to cover up many additional deaths.
Colin Kaepernick didn't recently start a multimillion dollar fund to aid families of victims in getting secondary independent coroner/autopsy reports without reason.
If the fact that this is necessary doesnt terrify you or the people in your community, then I don't know what to say.
Re:Each Firefox download has a unique identifier
by UberFly on Friday March 18, 2022 @01:11PM
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Real statistics that aren't limited to your own jaundiced view of reality I mean.
Re:Each Firefox download has a unique identifier
by ashwagary on Friday March 18, 2022 @02:07PM
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I haven't seen reliable polling data proving the parent's or my claim. Either of us could be right.
Although, we also haven't seen tens of millions of people protest/petition to defund or reform intelligence services recently.
Without definite data, the fact that we've seen that urgency around local police reform seems like a decent alternate public sentiment indicator.
Re:Each Firefox download has a unique identifier
by unnamed76ri on Thursday March 17, 2022 @11:10PM
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you’re only off by whatever number of thousands over a thousand you are implying here.
Re:Each Firefox download has a unique identifier
by Someone on Friday March 18, 2022 @04:11AM
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I don’t know whether the OP was thinking of it, but world-wide, it is thousands (https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/police-ki.... Numbers “include those killed by security forces such as military police and intelligence agents”, but I think removing those would easily keep it ‘thousands’)