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By that logic, and seeing how far more people are killed by police than police officers are killed by people, anyone getting arrested would have a better claim

By that logic, and seeing how far more people are killed by police than police officers are killed by people, anyone getting arrested would have a better claim to be at risk of death. How much better? According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_law_enforcement_officers_killed_in_the_line_of_duty_in_the_United_States#2020 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_law_enforcement_office..., twenty police officers were killed by assailants in 2020. The list of people killed by the US police isn't a single article, unfortunately. It's a list for every month of every year. Here's January 2019: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_killings_by_law_enforcement_officers_in_the_United_States,_January_2019 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_killings_by_law_enforc... It's 93 deaths for that month. For the year, it's 632.

google234123 5y ago
An arrest is not the same as a physical struggle... Anyway, given there are ~10 million arrests a year + 50 million more interactions, and 100s of millions of guns in the US, there's going to be a lot of people that decide to fight back. The fact that people like you are creating a culture were illegally resisting arrest is actually an ethical/political statement contributes to this.
- Retric 5y ago
  Running away is resisting arrest and doesn’t endanger the cop. It’s shocking how you moved the goalposts from death, to conflict, to running away as justification for death. Also, if your comparing numbers cops successfully kill around a thousand people per year and attempt to kill significantly more. Talking about number of interactions let alone guns is a meaningless number.
  - google234123 5y ago
    That's actually evading arrest - not the same thing. My point is that if you try and fight someone with a gun, don't be surprised if something bad happens.
    - marcellus23 5y ago
      People whose jobs are to protect the public should have a higher bar for acceptable behavior than "someone with a gun"

google234123 5y ago

An arrest is not the same as a physical struggle... Anyway, given there are ~10 million arrests a year + 50 million more interactions, and 100s of millions of guns in the US, there's going to be a lot of people that decide to fight back. The fact that people like you are creating a culture were illegally resisting arrest is actually an ethical/political statement contributes to this.

Retric 5y ago
Running away is resisting arrest and doesn’t endanger the cop. It’s shocking how you moved the goalposts from death, to conflict, to running away as justification for death. Also, if your comparing numbers cops successfully kill around a thousand people per year and attempt to kill significantly more. Talking about number of interactions let alone guns is a meaningless number.
- google234123 5y ago
  That's actually evading arrest - not the same thing. My point is that if you try and fight someone with a gun, don't be surprised if something bad happens.
  - marcellus23 5y ago
    People whose jobs are to protect the public should have a higher bar for acceptable behavior than "someone with a gun"