Take a look at this thread and notice this... Police killings are justified by the people... PO just doing their jobs... Those probably were criminals... Trump being investigated by FBI and so much outrage from the people saying how unjust it is...... See how it works...
109. That’s the final number for how many people American police killed in January alone. Staggering. That’s more than police in many developed nations kill in a decade. And because Trump has sucked the wind out of the news cycle, most of us cannot name a single person.
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how many wielded knives or guns, or worse yet shot or attacked police in the process? The distinction is kind of important.
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Civillians attack police in other countries too, yet police and attacker rarely end up dead or even injured. Maybe 19 weeks of training for US police officers vs. 50-150 weeks of training in other countries have something to do with it. (yes, those numbers are right)
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19 weeks for a basic academy? Sometimes up to 32 weeks. You also failed to mention the minimum three months and sometimes up to a year of in-field training. It differs by department. So I'd say no, not right. Have you ever participated in a use of force scenario yourself?
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19 weeks is the average, meaning some police officers walk the streets with even less training
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Additionally, I guarantee you'll learn a lot about yourself and maybe realize that having to make that life-death decision in fractions of a second isn't all too easy.
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A very large proportion of those were armed suspects, so..pic.twitter.com/6igMifLFHK
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Approximately 250 police officers killed in line of duty in the UK from 1945-2015 according to The Guardian. In the US, around 2,410 from 1970 to 2013. Stop ignoring the fact that our citizenry is a part of the problem.
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How many US police killed in January as compared to the 109 civilians killed by police?
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From what I can tell, 6. Out of 765,980 active police. Compare that to 109 out of 322 MILLION non-police population, and the death rate for officers was actually much higher (6 per mil vs. .3 per mil). Both are a problem, but only one is being acknowledged here
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Both are a problem, thanks for the data. That being said, the comparator for civilians would be civilian deaths per 1000 civilians in contact with police, not per the entire population, most of whom did not have contact with police in the time frame.
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Agree that the Data is imperfect. Just no way for me to find that actual data easily. And conversely, we'd need to know how many of those 109 deaths at the hands of police were completely unjustifiable.
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Given the comparative data with other countries, the question of 'justifiable' is, I would argue, a red herring. American police kill exponentially more than anywhere else in developed world. It's a problem
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And as my original tweet showed, Americans likely kill police officers exponentially more than anywhere else in the developed world. But that's not talked about. It's viewed solely as a police problem. We ALL have to do better.
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...and our hearts are still hurting, and communities are still being victimized by those were supposed to protect us
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Most of them were armed criminals........
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How do you know?
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There’s plenty of websites showing what they people have been killed for.......
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