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> They do it because they can, because they are taught power and control over people is everything and the slightest challenge should be met with extreme force.
by gutnor 11y ago
> They do it because they can, because they are taught power and control over people is everything and the slightest challenge should be met with extreme force.
Maybe they do it for more mundane reasons: because they are bored of nothing happening and just decide to check a car to break monotony. Maybe they are having a bad day and something that would not have bothered them any other day is pissing them off.
The problem is that comparatively to other first world countries, the US society is quite violent. You put a small army of armed regular human being on the street in a country with a small to medium expectation of violence and stupidity will have dearer consequences.
- rayiner 11y agoThe U.S. is quite violent compared to many third world countries. Our homicide rate is almost double that of Bangladesh.
- happyscrappy 11y agoWithout blacks murdering other blacks in gang violence the numbers are roughly the same as other developed countries, as this article reluctantly admits at the end. http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/black-americans-are-killed-at-12-times-the-rate-of-people-in-other-developed-countries/ http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/black-americans-are-kille...
- tptacek 11y agoWhere by "roughly the same" you mean "twice as high", and by "black" you mean "black and hispanic", and, of course, the demography that creates those statistics and confounds simple comparisons like that is left entirely out of your one-liner.