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You're confusing anecdotes for data and extrapolating a few bad cases to malign hundreds of thousands of people.

• coldtea 8y ago
  Glad to hear your data, because every statistic on police homicides by country tells the same story.
  • jki275 8y ago
    Your response is typical hand-waving when caught out pretending a couple of articles of anecdotes are data.
    • _Tev 8y ago
      And what you are doing if not handwaving? I'm all for breaking HN-stereotypes, please show us some statistic in which US police does not look like a bunch of murderers.
      • jki275 8y ago
        You made the allegation, you prove it.
        • _Tev 8y ago
          You have got to be kidding me, this whole discussion (under the article) is citing several stats in which is US at best tied for the most awful police force. For a guy pulling the handwaving argument you don't seem to try too hard.
• longerthoughts 8y ago
  Here's an interesting summary of some (imperfect) data: https://www.vox.com/cards/police-brutality-shootings-us/us-police-shootings-statistics https://www.vox.com/cards/police-brutality-shootings-us/us-p.... It's not right to characterize all US officers as horrible people but there's definitely something wrong here that seems to be distinctly American.