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After downloading the DB and deselecting "Allegedly Armed" there are 281 records so only 1/4th. Not being US resident or citizen I wonder if this is the effect
by xlii 6y ago
After downloading the DB and deselecting "Allegedly Armed" there are 281 records so only 1/4th.
Not being US resident or citizen I wonder if this is the effect of the gun availability.
Just few weeks back I was listening to a podcast where one of the guys went to US for couple weeks for vacations. They discussed the difference of the approach of the police.
Where I am, it's usually silly, when cop stops my car he salutes in overly formal way and in really angry tone (like really really angry) described what I have done and if I comply if not. Probably 99% of the danger for the cop him/herself is that I'm going to curse him and his family 3 generations back.
Whereas in US, it's all about police-safety first. They will scan back of the car, will ask (demand even) absolute compliance. This makes sense (to some degree, as police person is protecting their own life) since I could have a weapon and be a criminal or maybe even insane enough to try to pull this stunt. After living with this possibility for a while and having to estimate situation dozen if not hundreds time each day it's not surprising that police killings do happen.
613 of those 1089 killings in 2019 (56%) were gun related. And that's 75% of the "victim armed" cases.
In contrary only 119 victims were confirmed to be unarmed.
That's probably something completely different than the authors wanted to communicate, but I think it shows how complex the matter is and undoubtedly can't be attributed to only single class of the issues.
- koheripbal 6y agoI also grabbed the data - the majority of them are in counties where guns are very hard to come by. Of course, there is some bleed over from adjacent counties, but I'd suspect (guess) many of them are holding other types of weapons.
- deathgrips 6y ago>Not being US resident or citizen I wonder if this is the effect of the gun availability Almost no effect. I live in a state where over 2/3 of people own guns (usually multiple guns) and we have one of the lowest murder rates in America and a very low rate of police killing.