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~ the stats are much worse than that it suggests that one police officer is murdered per week and 6 are injured by a firearm (PER DAY). To suggest that those ar

~ the stats are much worse than that it suggests that one police officer is murdered per week and 6 are injured by a firearm (PER DAY). To suggest that those arent alarming rates and just part of the job is very ungenerous to those we trust with keeping us safe from belligerents. Imagine if it was someone in your family who was killed on duty. Sometimes "fuck the police" goes too far, some of us actually like law and order.

mhuffman 10y ago
There are nearly 1 million police officers -- these are not high numbers! Certainly every individual one is a tragedy, and I wouldn't want it to be me, but overall these are not alarming numbers, taken in context.
- Mao_Zedang 10y ago
  Out of the 1208 people killed by police last year (2015) how many where unjust? I am just wondering because, 50 in 1 million is 0.005% and 1208 in 320 million is 0.00037% so it would appear more police die per population (total police) vs per population (total people) you are 10 times more likely to die as a police officer than you are to die from a police officer.
  - mhuffman 10y ago
    More dangerous still are garbage collectors.[1] What is your point exactly? My point is that being a police officer is not as deadly of a job as they insinuate (note that most police officers die of heart attacks and car accidents). [1] http://time.com/4326676/dangerous-jobs-america/ http://time.com/4326676/dangerous-jobs-america/
    - Mao_Zedang 10y ago
      My point is police die at the hands of the public more often than the public dies at the hands of the police.
knucklesandwich 10y ago
Incorrect WRT the injury stat. You're looking at the total stats for 10 years, not any single year. Actually I just realized I made the same mistake for killings by police (1111 is a _one year_ count for citizens, whereas 505 is a _ten year count_ for police. In reality you had about _21 times_ the odds of being killed by the police in an interaction). There were 1,950 firearm assaults on the police by a criminal and an injury percentage of 9.4% by firearms in 2014. That gives ~183 injuries [1]. [1] https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/leoka/2014/tables/table_76_leos_asltd_type_of_weapon_and_percent_injured_2005-2014.xls https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/leoka/2014/tables/tabl...

mhuffman 10y ago

There are nearly 1 million police officers -- these are not high numbers! Certainly every individual one is a tragedy, and I wouldn't want it to be me, but overall these are not alarming numbers, taken in context.

Mao_Zedang 10y ago
Out of the 1208 people killed by police last year (2015) how many where unjust? I am just wondering because, 50 in 1 million is 0.005% and 1208 in 320 million is 0.00037% so it would appear more police die per population (total police) vs per population (total people) you are 10 times more likely to die as a police officer than you are to die from a police officer.
- mhuffman 10y ago
  More dangerous still are garbage collectors.[1] What is your point exactly? My point is that being a police officer is not as deadly of a job as they insinuate (note that most police officers die of heart attacks and car accidents). [1] http://time.com/4326676/dangerous-jobs-america/ http://time.com/4326676/dangerous-jobs-america/
  - Mao_Zedang 10y ago
    My point is police die at the hands of the public more often than the public dies at the hands of the police.

knucklesandwich 10y ago

Incorrect WRT the injury stat. You're looking at the total stats for 10 years, not any single year. Actually I just realized I made the same mistake for killings by police (1111 is a _one year_ count for citizens, whereas 505 is a _ten year count_ for police. In reality you had about _21 times_ the odds of being killed by the police in an interaction). There were 1,950 firearm assaults on the police by a criminal and an injury percentage of 9.4% by firearms in 2014. That gives ~183 injuries [1]. [1] https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/leoka/2014/tables/table_76_leos_asltd_type_of_weapon_and_percent_injured_2005-2014.xls https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/leoka/2014/tables/tabl...