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\\ This is why so many unarmed people are getting shot by the cop How many unarmed people are killed by the police each year in the us? When I ask this questio
by xyzelement 5y ago
\\ This is why so many unarmed people are getting shot by the cop
How many unarmed people are killed by the police each year in the us? When I ask this question, most people guess "thousands" or "tens of thousands". The real number is around 50.
Of course the ideal number is 0 but the US is very far from having a " police killing unarmed people " problem.
- 0_gravitas 5y agoWho decides if the person killed is unarmed again?
- xyzelement 5y agoThat's an interesting point. So how did we decide whether there a real problem or not?
- mgleason_3 5y agoSource? This article says it was almost 1000 last year. https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/investigations/police-shootings-database/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/investigations/polic... A few years ago police shot a man neareby when they mistook a water hose nozzle he was holding for a handgun.
- jcims 5y agoThat’s total, not unarmed.
- AYBABTME 5y agoMy brother is doing research on suspicious usage of "Suicide by cop" as a cause of death, a phenomenon where police departments and coroners may be overly broad in their application of the label. I hadn't thought about this, but apparently this imaginative labelling _may_ be hiding unfavourable statistics . Although I doubt this would change the number from 50 to 10,000.
- essayist 5y agoThe Washington Post says the police killed 413 unarmed people from 1/1/2015 through 7/16/2021, about 63/year. https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/investigations/police-shootings-database/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/investigations/polic...