(July 24, 2016 at 8:38 pm)Gawdzilla Wrote:(July 24, 2016 at 8:32 pm)johan Wrote: Wouldn't help. I think police work is one of those jobs where lots of people go in thinking they'll be different, they'll buck the trend and change things for the better. And the vast majority get inside and quickly realize their choices are comply and adopt/continue the existing culture or wash out and start over from scratch in a different field.
~1/335353th of the public was killed by police action in 2015.
1. According to whom? Since there is no requirement for police to report how many people they kill to anyone ever, that number is a guess at best.
2. That fraction, a guess though it is, still translates to over 1000 individuals. How many of those individuals were armed and presenting a real and obvious threat?
3. More importantly, how many weren't? If that number is above zero, and it most certainly is, than it's too many.
4. Even more importantly, how many of the officers that shot said individuals who were not armed nor presenting any kind of real and obvious threat will face criminal charges or see real jail time for their actions? If the answer is anything less than all, then its far too few.