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You're looking at deaths, not shootings. I posit that cops have body armor, training, and generally are equipped to take bullets, so to speak. Only 50 officer

You're looking at deaths, not shootings. I posit that cops have body armor, training, and generally are equipped to take bullets, so to speak. Only 50 officers might have died, but if 1500 were shot, that makes the 1000 civilian fatalities look different; civvies aren't wearing vests.

GVIrish 6y ago
That's a good point, but the corollary of that is, how many people were shot by the police but didn't die? And going one step further, we've seen the stat for yearly police gun homicides but as far as I know there are no reliable statistics for how many people are killed by police by other methods. How many people are dying from chokeholds, from beatings, from having medical attention withheld?
- hef19898 6y ago
  It is not just shootings, violence comes in many forms.
- NovemberWhiskey 6y ago
  >That's a good point, but the corollary of that is, how many people were shot by the police but didn't die? ... and how many times did the police miss the unarmed suspects they were shooting at and hit innocent bystanders? https://www.cnn.com/2013/09/15/justice/times-square-police-shooting/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2013/09/15/justice/times-square-police-s...
  - pluto9 6y ago
    Don't forget this one: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ups-hijacking-gun-battle-florida-killed-two-nearly-200-shots-n1104961 https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ups-hijacking-gun-battl... There's even a video of this incident that shows them using occupied civilian vehicles for cover.