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You're probably at a lower risk of being murdered with a bad cop than with your own family members.

• thefurdrake 3y ago
  Yes, but people in general don't weight their families as much of a danger as strangers. Interacting with cops has become scary for people.
• FireBeyond 3y ago
  In a fascinating irony, more than 40% of cops admit to instigating domestic violence at home (which begs the question of how many more have, but don't admit it?).
• derstander 3y ago
  > You're probably at a lower risk of being murdered with a bad cop than with your own family members. Sure, and I’m much more statistically likely to be hurt by a dog than mauled by a lion. But I’m not going to give up my dogs and start wandering into lion cages at the zoo. With travel, we often talk about deaths per x miles traveled. I think in this case a reasonable metric would be deaths or injuries per x minutes of interaction.
• dragonwriter 3y ago
  > You're probably at a lower risk of being murdered with a bad cop than with your own family members. If you have a cop as a family member, you are at an elevated risk of each of those, and much of that is the special risk of getting both simultaneously.
• banannaise 3y ago
  Most automotive collisions happen within 50 miles of your home. (You interact with your own family members many orders of magnitude more often than with the police; as such, raw numbers here would be wildly misleading.)