Your articles source for that 80k figure is literally a guess by a criminologist who gives the range "50k to 80k" based on literally no data. The only data they are using is PG county MD which has one of the highest murder rates in the country.

In 2021 there were ~1,000 police shootings. 85% of shot suspects were armed with a deadly weapon. That's in a nation with a population of 334,000,000 people.

This is either an intentional lie or a typo. There were 1000 police killings, not 1000 police shootings.

edit: and I'm even accidentally being deceptive. There were over 1000 people shot dead by police. There were more people killed by police.

"Deadly shootings" is the phrase used by WaPo where I sourced the number.

There are 1,136 total killed by police in 2021. 1,055 of them were shot.

There is a rough estimate that there were about 800 non-deadly police shootings, but that's a rough guess without much data.

> 85% of shot suspects were armed with a deadly weapon.

That percentage is artificially inflated due to LEOs having a very broad definition of "deadly weapon".

Guns kill people. Knives kill people. Hammers kill.. a surprising number of people.

I'll bet you $100 those SWAT deployment figures are so low because they aren't counting all the warrants they have them serve as deployments. Departments use them constantly for that kind of stuff. They love to hut hut around and play soldier.

Side note....did you read about those 150 Americans they chose randomly, and then stripped them of their right to vote as well as their right to firearms? It's funny how I could spread that fake story and people would lose their minds talking about a government not long to stand. Yet, if I say that 150 unarmed Americans were murdered by agents of the state who were violating their civil liberties under color of authority you'll cite the national population and say that shows great professionalism. Oh....the FBI is about to stop tracking those stats since only 57% of total LEO reported to them for the 2021 numbers. Just 44% reported the year prior.

This entire bizzaro world of where it's patriotic to support a group of revenue generators for the state being able to murder someone because, "Well....he took a breath faster then the previous one and I was sure he had a SAW system in your pocket....so me and Fred shot him 37 times. Well....we shot at him 37 times. But a few hit him. Some random house of someone in that area luckily took all the wayward rounds for us!", meaning it takes a true patriot to understand that our rights are all based on supporting someone who will allow you to die or end you themselves if they even see a shadow that makes them think that you mean him harm and are planning his demise.

If SWAT shoots you, you gain a lifetime achievement. Unfortunately, you don't live to see the toast message at the bottom of your HUD.