(July 17, 2016 at 1:25 pm)Gawdzilla Wrote:(July 17, 2016 at 12:15 pm)Minimalist Wrote: http://killedbypolice.net/
As of yesterday, 630 people had been killed by police. So if you divide 630 by roughly 195 days so far this year you get 3.2 fatalities/day. I have no idea how many people they shoot and wound.
But it is far from uncommon.
And there are ~3,000,000 police in the US. So if you divide 630 by roughly 3,000,000 you get .021% of the police involved in police shootings.
FUCKING EPIDEMIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Um - there are not 3 million.
http://blog.skepticallibertarian.com/201...n-the-usa/
Quote:BJS estimates that in 2008, there were 17,895 law enforcement agencies employing 1.13 million full-time workers, including over 765,000 sworn officers, as well as about 100,000 part-time employees, including over 44,000 sworn officers. That gives a total of full- and part-time employees with general arrest powers of about 810,000 in 2008.
Re-do your math. Subtract the meter maids.