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> Seeing as encounters with law enforcement are probably more deadly on average than jaywalking There are far more instances of jaywalking than police interact
by GhostVII 6y ago
> Seeing as encounters with law enforcement are probably more deadly on average than jaywalking
There are far more instances of jaywalking than police interactions, and yet pedestrian deaths are 6x higher than deaths from police. So no that is not true in any way, especially when you account for armed vs unarmed police shootings (~25 unarmed black people were shot and killed by police in 2019, where unarmed includes fake guns).
- jgwil2 6y ago"Pedestrian deaths" does not equal "deaths caused by jaywalking." > There are far more instances of jaywalking than police interactions, and yet pedestrian deaths are 6x higher than deaths from police. The first assertion actually cuts against your argument. If there are far more instances of jaywalking than police encounters, then even if there are many more deaths caused by jaywalking, police encounters could still be deadlier on a per-instance basis.
- LordDragonfang 6y ago>There are far more instances of jaywalking than police interactions, and yet pedestrian deaths are 6x higher than deaths from police. "And yet" is entirely the wrong conjunction here; if there are more instances of jaywalking than police encounters, then it logically follows there would be more deaths. In fact, I'd argue that there are far more than 6x as many instances of jaywalking than there are police encounters, which kind of undermines your whole point.
- GhostVII 6y agoAh yea I had that flipped. Not all 6k deaths are from jaywalking, and not all 1k police deaths are unjustified so probably a poor comparison regardless