> That reality isn’t continuing now
Where's your proof? Police have killed nearly just as many people in 2020 as 2019 (850 vs. 861), despite the pandemic and lockdown.
Where's your proof? Police have killed nearly just as many people in 2020 as 2019 (850 vs. 861), despite the pandemic and lockdown.
For reference, in non-COVID time, about 100 people die each day in car accidents.
Edit: clarity
The reference is to allow for comparison. Most people have no feeling for absolute statistics. Comparing something in relative terms to the numbers for something with which they have a daily experience, helps to provide context for the scale or severity of a problem.
> The two are not comparable problems and each requires completely different solutions.
Nobody said they require the same solution. The point is to grasp the scale of the problem.
> I think a helpful comparison is examining how in other first world countries the police kill almost nobody. Per capita, more people are killed by law enforcement in the US than in any other 1st world country by a huge margin.
You'll get little sympathy for people actively fighting back and resisting arrest. I think it's more relevant to look at the number of unarmed people killed by law enforcement: https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-myth-of-systemic-police-rac...
In 2019 that was 28 people (9 black, 19 white). Again, that's in a country of 330,000,000 people. Yes, it is disproportionately black vs the general population. But there are other factors like income and housing density that come into play. And in absolute terms it's a very small number of the total population.
Yes, we should be reducing that further but it's not a problem of police randomly killing blacks. And it's nowhere near the scale of other problems that are killing people or blacks specifically. Last year in Chicago alone, there were 349 black homicides.
US police kill 33.5 people per 10M, which is nearly 3x our closest neighbor (who has imported our policing strategies, unfortunately).
Canada: 9.8
Australia: 8.5
Netherlands: 2.3
New Zealand: 2.0
Germany: 1.3
England: 0.5
Japan: 0.2
Iceland: 0
Norway: 0
https://www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2020/06/05/policekillings/
Australia: 9.55
Egypt: 8.45
USA: 6.75
Canada: 5.57
Sweden: 5.56
Norway: 4.04
Netherlands: 3.90
New Zealand: 2.86
Germany: 1.37
Japan: 0.77
England: 0.42
https://www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2020/06/05/policekillings/
https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/police-ki... for countries not on prisonpolicy.org
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intention...
I fail to understand how this has to do with anything. There are considerably more people driving cars than interacting with the police, probably more than 10000x. Which means, you're statistically more likely to be killed by police than in a car.
No other developed "1st world" country even comes close to the number of deaths per capita by police than the U.S. This is 850 lives and many thousands of family members affected each year by gross negligence, of which most deaths could have easily been avoided.
Guess what other countries share similar police killing rates as the U.S.? Iran and the Philippines.
Also, you can pick ten black and ten white shootings at random and see what went down yourself. Though you shouldn't need to, if you're lazy. Just look at the justified shootings people have been protesting this year, because there haven't been enough legitimate bad ones.