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Originally Posted by GoodLife
What you say is probably true. Can you post a source for the true numbers? I assumed that these organizations like John Hopkins know what they are doing.
Besides, I can prove my point without the medical error deaths. I would bet Doctors Intentionally kill more people per year than Police kill unarmed civilians. The Ohio Dr is on trial for killing 25 with fentanyl, that's 50% of the Police total.
But I don't think Doctors are murdering Nazis because a few of them are bad. I play golf with several of them  Nor do I think Police are racists who kill blacks indiscriminately. The actual numbers are miniscule in relation to other stats. |
Unfortunately there is no source for "true" numbers, because the powers that be aren't interested in true numbers. NY State health dept. spends many millions of dollars to collect this data, so the last thing they want is for the data to show nothing of significance.
Perhaps our problem is that the comparison between medical "mistakes" and police deaths is apples and oranges. I agree with your point that the number of deaths caused by police is very small compared to the number of interactions the police have with citizens. And the media is quick to overlook that in the recent highly publicized deaths, the victims all were resisting arrest. If they had just followed the instructions of the LEO's, as they are required to do by law, they would be alive today. That's no excuse for the indifferent use of excessive force displayed by the officers involved in those cases, but if you don't go swimming in the ocean, you don't get eaten by sharks.