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Re:You’re Eight Times More Likely to be Killed by a Police O... by jrs99 on Monday January 20, 2014 @07:28PM (#7092589)
did you read the article?
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Re:You’re Eight Times More Likely to be Killed by a Police O... by TrainedMonkey on Monday January 20, 2014 @07:35PM (#7092620)
Yes, any specific point you are trying to raise?
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Re:You’re Eight Times More Likely to be Killed by a Police O... by stellar678 on Monday January 20, 2014 @08:19PM (#7092782)
Your points were taken up in the blog post:

The fact that I'm personally extremely unlikely to be killed by either terrorists or cops isn't the reason the statistic is important.

The statistic is important for public policy debate because there is 8 times more progress to be made in terms of saving lives by dealing with the problem of police killings.

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Re:You’re Eight Times More Likely to be Killed by a Police O... by TrainedMonkey on Monday January 20, 2014 @08:38PM (#7092848)
Please see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7092804 for why just using raw numbers will not tell you whole story as I tried to point out.
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Re:You’re Eight Times More Likely to be Killed by a Police O... by sliverstorm on Monday January 20, 2014 @08:30PM (#7092824)
It's interesting, but it isn't the only needed info. You might have 8 times as much opportunity for progress, but it might be 8 times harder to make progress.
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Re:You’re Eight Times More Likely to be Killed by a Police O... by jrs99 on Monday January 20, 2014 @07:41PM (#7092640)
no
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