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According to the WaPo tracker, police shot ~150 unarmed people last year. But this includes, per WaPo, people engaged in such activities as "gouging out the off
by Amezarak 4y ago
According to the WaPo tracker, police shot ~150 unarmed people last year. But this includes, per WaPo, people engaged in such activities as "gouging out the officer's eye." I think it's probably safe to assume an order of magnitude less people were literally just standing around or sleeping (is that a reference to Taylor? FWIW, that ended up being Twitter misinformation - she was awake standing next to her boyfriend, who was firing at the police through the door), for about 15.
I would imagine it's a pretty good guess that police already tase at least 1000x that many people every year. I'm having trouble finding good national LEO statistics, but "Taser International" claims 900 Taser uses a day. I don't think we should do anything to encourage that.
- dmix 4y agoPlus 95% of shootings in WaPo's police database were armed people. The bigger problem is no-knock warrants which created dangerous situations for legal firearm owners and the police themselves, with the only rationalization being flushing drugs.
- drewcoo 4y agoSo if someone has a weapon, it's ok to shoot them? I would hope that police could talk a situation down to the point the nobody (else) gets shot.