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Your points were taken up in the blog post: The fact that I'm personally extremely unlikely to be killed by either terrorists or cops isn't the reason the stat
by stellar678 13y ago
Your points were taken up in the blog post:
The fact that I'm personally extremely unlikely to be killed by either terrorists or cops isn't the reason the statistic is important.
The statistic is important for public policy debate because there is 8 times more progress to be made in terms of saving lives by dealing with the problem of police killings.
- sliverstorm 13y agoIt's interesting, but it isn't the only needed info. You might have 8 times as much opportunity for progress, but it might be 8 times harder to make progress.
- TrainedMonkey 13y agoPlease see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7092804 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7092804 for why just using raw numbers will not tell you whole story as I tried to point out.