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Schooling the Cops
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RE: Schooling the Cops
October 2, 2016 at 2:53 pm
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RE: Schooling the Cops
October 2, 2016 at 2:55 pm
You'll need murder rates -by gun-.  You'll need -shootings- by country.  Just trying to help those interested in fact checking get their metrics for comparison straight.
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RE: Schooling the Cops
October 2, 2016 at 2:58 pm (This post was last modified: October 2, 2016 at 3:01 pm by abaris.)
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RE: Schooling the Cops
October 2, 2016 at 3:25 pm
(October 2, 2016 at 2:42 pm)Rhythm Wrote:
(October 2, 2016 at 2:18 pm)RobertE Wrote: Yes, they should have shot the fucker instead, that way you can get your 89 seconds and 8/10ths of a second back. Big Grin

A bit like when the cops shot (correctly) Kajieme Powell when he refused to put down the knife. He was probably as stupid as hell too.

Being stupid isn't a capital offense either.
It frequently is.  Rolleyes
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RE: Schooling the Cops
October 2, 2016 at 3:26 pm
(October 2, 2016 at 2:53 pm)abaris Wrote: The Washington post sets the number of people being shot by police at 975 in 2015.

Thinkprogress sets it at 1186. 

You're more likely to die by lightning.
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October 2, 2016 at 3:43 pm (This post was last modified: October 2, 2016 at 3:46 pm by abaris.)
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RE: Schooling the Cops
October 2, 2016 at 3:44 pm (This post was last modified: October 2, 2016 at 3:50 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(October 2, 2016 at 3:26 pm)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote:
(October 2, 2016 at 2:53 pm)abaris Wrote: The Washington post sets the number of people being shot by police at 975 in 2015.

Thinkprogress sets it at 1186. 

You're more likely to die by lightning.

Lightining isn't something that's under our control, and subject to criminal law. The fact that shit like malaria kills more people than cops, doesn't make those killings by cops any better, any more excusable. We expect that frm shit like lightning, shit like a disease. Is that what our cops are, a disease..a natural disaster? Is that a relevant comparison?

When we find ourselves saying to ourselves (and to others) "it's not as bad as it sounds" -and then referring to people struck by lightning.......-...well, that might be -why- it's so damned bad. Food for thought.
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RE: Schooling the Cops
October 2, 2016 at 4:20 pm
We could increase the number of lightning strikes if we convinced people to go out to play on high ground carrying a metal rod.
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RE: Schooling the Cops
October 2, 2016 at 4:24 pm
"Wheelie bin"
Oh, you Brits are so silly  Good one
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RE: Schooling the Cops
October 2, 2016 at 5:07 pm
(October 2, 2016 at 4:20 pm)LastPoet Wrote: We could increase the number of lightning strikes if we convinced people to go out to play on high ground carrying a metal rod.

Might get the cops off the hook, that's the kind of thing a certain segment of our population really ought to look into.
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