RE: When do statistics count?
April 23, 2022 at 6:05 am
(This post was last modified: April 23, 2022 at 6:06 am by onlinebiker.)
(April 23, 2022 at 5:27 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:(April 23, 2022 at 5:02 am)Jehanne Wrote: Cops deal with dangerous criminals on a regular, if not daily basis, and so, there is a selection effect going on here. Imagine buying a pair of handcuffs. You as a private citizen could carry them around with you all day; you'll never use them as part of some (legal) citizen's arrest.
Cops deal with dangerous suspects on a sporadic basis (while you didn't explicitly say it, I just want to note that I'm fed up with the notion that copping is a dangerous profession).
But I'm not sure the reasons for shooting people is germane to the OP's point, which seems to be that you're less likely to be shot by a cop than by a civilian, full stop. That's simply not true.
Boru
You do have a flair for twisting the numbers.
The numbers speak for themselves.
In the USA, the odds of you being shot by a civilian are over 20 times higher than being shot by a cop.
Period.
