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Originally Posted by roscoguy
Your police shooting numbers seem to be taken from a source other than the Washington Post. According to their actual database, there were 55 police shootings of unarmed people in 2019. https://www.washingtonpost.com/graph...ings-database/
Then, there are other sources that are not limited to only shootings. According to Mapping Police Violence, there were as many as 114 deaths of unarmed people caused by police in 2019. National Trends — Mapping Police Violence
I don't really understand the point of this thread. Maybe still trying to downplay the obvious police misconduct leading to George Floyd's death by comparing unrelated numbers of police shootings to medical errors? They both are preventable causes, but for the most part so are deaths from auto accidents, heart attacks, workplace accidents, strokes, drownings & lightning strikes. No real correlation that I can see.
Are you saying that the medical field needs to be held more accountable for accidental deaths? If that's it, then what would police-related deaths have to do with it? Puzzling...  |
Looks like WAPO updated their numbers. So in 2019 55 unarmed people were killed, 15 Black and 25 White. Doesn't matter, still a miniscule problem when you look at the millions of encounters Police have with civilians every year. In many of these cases, juries find Police not guilty of intentional murder. In many cases it is just human error in a split second decision.
WAPO also said
“The number of black and unarmed people fatally shot by police has declined since 2015." (by 60%)
“Fatal police shootings are relatively rare events in a country where nearly 40,000 people die from firearms each year. Hundreds of thousands of police officers work in America, most of whom will never fire their guns on duty.”
According to statistics reported to the FBI, 89 law enforcement officers were killed in line-of-duty incidents in 2019. Of these, 48 officers died as a result of felonious acts, and 41 officers died in accidents. Weapons. Offenders used firearms to kill 44 of the 48 victim officers. Four officers were killed with vehicles used as weapons.
15 of the LEOs killed in 2019 were killed by Blacks. Where's the big hubbub about that?
Every year 1000's of blacks are murdered by blacks. Where's the hubbub about that?
Black on white violent crime is much larger than white on black crime. No hubub
I'm pretty sure a jury will convict the Police of murder or something less in Floyd case. I don't have to downplay Police misconduct, the actual numbers show it's way less of a problem than Black on Black murders, and at least in 2019, no bigger a problem than Blacks murdering Police officers.
The point of this post is to show the scale of these issues. Whether it's Doctors or nurses etc, several well known entities like John Hopkins have found that over 200,000 die each year due to medical errors.