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Bad Cop, Bad Cop, Whatcha gonna do?

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At 0.015%, cops would have to kill 45,000+ people a year. I'm not sure what you're getting at.
 
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unofan said:
126 out of ~800,000 sworn officers nationwide. That's about .015%. While even 1 is too many, that actually doesn't seem like all that high of a rate for a "dangerous" profession.

How many people were killed by cops?

Oh wait, we can't know, because for some reason police aren't required to track that sort of thing.
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Uh ... we know. From earlier in this thread ...

The Sicatoka said:
Say 1450 people killed by police (5/1/13 to 8/25/14 -- Kepler approved source ). Pro-rate that back to 12 months and it's about 1100 people.

In 2012, 10,322 people were killed in alcohol-impaired driving crashes, accounting for nearly one-third (31%) of all traffic-related deaths in the United States. (Source)

When I dare get out of bed in the morning, am I more worried about a cop shooting me or getting killed by a drunk driver?

The numbers say I'm roughly 10x more likely to be killed by the drunk driver. Worse? If I'm confronted by a cop I know the cop is armed. So, which drivers around me are drunk?

File this under: "EBOLA'S GONNA KILL US ALL!" hysteria.
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That's 0.00344% (to save dxm from the math).

Or, a cop is about 4.5 times more likely to be killed by the public than the public is to be killed by a cop.
 
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Kepler said:
More fun with the boys in blue.
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"Dream big, become Legend"? Oh the horror... the horror. It's difficult for us to imagine the agonies of living in an oppressive police state like New York City where you have to work hard for a good 20 minutes to get a shove on film.
Did you notice the victim's speech was all dubbed over with the ominous police state music? I doubt he even gets an indictment.
 
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geezer said:
"Dream big, become Legend"? Oh the horror... the horror. It's difficult for us to imagine the agonies of living in an oppressive police state like New York City where you have to work hard for a good 20 minutes to get a shove on film.
Did you notice the victim's speech was all dubbed over with the ominous police state music? I doubt he even gets an indictment.
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Why should he have gotten any response at all? He was dancing in public. Since when does that require a police response?
 
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Maybe it's a bad idea to dance in the streets like a dumass. It was funny and cheeky doing it in the buildings and subway. Generally speaking I try not to taunt cops and jaywalk within a few days of a couple of cops getting shot.
 
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dxmnkd316 said:
Maybe it's a bad idea to dance in the streets like a dumass. It was funny and cheeky doing it in the buildings and subway. Generally speaking I try not to taunt cops and jaywalk within a few days of a couple of cops getting shot.
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Maybe our police should recognize this isn't Rome in 1925 or East Berlin in 1965.
 
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Priceless said:
Why should he have gotten any response at all? He was dancing in public. Since when does that require a police response?
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You're right, it shouldn't. I confess that I clicked forward to the interesting parts, and assumed that he had sought them out for taunting. If they hunted him down for that "infraction", that's silly. But we still don't know what he said to earn the shove after the argument. It's not behavior I would consider the height of wisdom in any case, legal or not.
 
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Uh ... we know. From earlier in this thread ...
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No, we don't know. We're inferring and extrapolating. Probably with some degree of accuracy, but it isn't exactly an official tally.

In a country that tracks things from how much TV is watched to how many bees are used for pollinating crops, don't you find it just a tad odd that there's no federal database on deaths caused by police? So we can track how many people are arrested for drunk driving in a given quarter, but not how often cops use force? Seriously?
 
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I don't understand why there isn't a database either. It's a worthy effort.
 
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When you put on the "magic badge" and go to jail, you'll be "Mike Tyson's girlfriend" faster than you can say "Ho Ho Ho!"
 
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