Without looking it up, how many unarmed black men would you guess were shot to death by cops in 2019, in the United States?
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Honest question: how much do we believe/trust the self-reported statistics on police violence?
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I haven’t even looked up the answer to your question, but even if I did, I’d be dubious of whatever it showed. It’s my understanding that the record keeping on this has been absent, self-serving, and sparse at best.
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Specifically statistics, which should be the de facto required math in high schools nationwide.
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I replied 101-300, but if the answer options were different, I'd probably guess a lot higher.
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This number is quite low, but (i) a good many of the high-profile black deaths in police custody were not shot and (ii) a good deal of the anger/fear is driven as much by low-level harassment than by death.
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Looks like I'm in the group which knows the correct stat of less than 15. People voting for higher numbers explains why we keep having riots. People are assuming a national emergency when in fact we've seen a vast improvement over last few decades.
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