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How many of those incidents could have been resolved by the offender just complying or not fleeing? Here is a link to show the breakdown of all police shootings

How many of those incidents could have been resolved by the offender just complying or not fleeing? Here is a link to show the breakdown of all police shootings. You can filter by race, if they had a weapon, mental illness, fleeing. In all of 2017 22 individuals were killed that were reported to be unarmed and not fleeing. https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/national/police-shootings-2017/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/national/police-shoo...

scarface74 8y ago
Baked into the statistics is an assumption that cops never lie.... https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/8xvzwp/baltimore-cops-carried-toy-guns-to-plant-on-people-they-shot-trial-reveals-vgtrn https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/8xvzwp/baltimore-cops-car... https://newsmaven.io/pinacnews/courtroom-files/st-louis-cop-charged-with-murder-video-shows-him-planting-a-gun-Joqf_t7wPUysqq_qwpqHGw/ https://newsmaven.io/pinacnews/courtroom-files/st-louis-cop-...
Audible_logic 8y ago
Because we know police statistic to be above question. Also, how does someone fleeing place the cops life in danger and require lethal force? I find this "comply in order to live..." logic dangerous.
- anonnyj 8y ago
  It's more like "Given the unlikely to change current state of things, you happen to be more likely to live if you comply, and as such, complying is a very good idea". I won't mind-read and suggest where you went wrong.
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