(July 28, 2015 at 4:47 pm)Gawdzilla Wrote: No hard numbers then?
How could there be exact numbers on these kinds of things? Do you believe that there is an accurate record of every interaction between police and the public? How could there be?
What we know is, it is frequently the case that police abuse their authority and murder people and do other bad things. That does not mean that every cop does bad things. But it is not isolated to one part of the country, and occurs in many different places.
Additionally, not only do police abuse their authority, they often get away with it even when there is sufficient evidence to reasonably conclude that they are wrong. That is a systemic problem, not an isolated sort of thing. Just read this entire thread if you imagine it is rare.
So, even if most police are okay, that does not mean that there is not a serious problem, both in what many police officers do, and what they get away with doing, even when there is evidence of them doing wrong.
Your attitude on this seems very strange. Imagine if I occasionally murdered people and buried them in my basement. Imagine you saying that that is terrible! Imagine me replying that I only occasionally murder people, and most of my interactions with other people do not result in anyone dying. Would that make it okay? Would that mean that there really isn't a problem with what I am doing?
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
