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Source? And no? I don’t think I gave any indication it would?

• JamesBarney 5y ago
  https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/investigations/police-shootings-database/?itid=lk_inline_manual_5 https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/investigations/polic... About 80 / year police shootings of unarmed individuals. There were about 19,000 homicides last year. 1 in 55 people people are on parole or probation. So even if we make the ludicrous assumption that people on parole or probation have exact same rate of violent crime as non probation or paroled you still end up with 345 homicides by people on parole or probation. I assume a rate 2-3x the base rate for population would be a completely reasonable assumption, giving us ~10x more homicides by people on probation/parole. The point is if police shootings rise to being an existential threat, than criminal justice reform is at least a much of an existential threat.
  • katbyte 5y ago
    the very first sentence there is "985 people have been shot and killed by police in the past year" and the rest of your comment is conjecture and assumptions with no facts to back them up
    • JamesBarney 5y ago
      I said unarmed. Which statistic do you think is meaningfully wrong?