When do statistics count?

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

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.

Of course the numbers speak for themselves, you just don’t understand what they’re saying.

Because the number of cops is 114 times less than the number of armed civilians, you’re statistically MORE likely to be shot and killed by a cop. That’s how statistics work.

Boru