2015: Police Kill 2.5 Civilians A Day (USA)
Posted: 03 Jun 2015, 09:50
i hate this police state so much.
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Shadow00 wrote:OK OK let me play devils advocate here.
US alone, averages 2400 daily deaths to various causes.
I mean yeah police brutality and all but it only amounts to 0.001% of daily deaths.
Just to make my point, 2.5 police related deaths a day means 912.5 deaths a year.
Drugs kill 43,000 US people per year.
I'm quite sure that alcohol related deaths are 88,000 per year (US alone).
And then there are house pets, actually averaging 300 US kills per year (2015 stats)
Yeah, weird as hell but if the owners a d-bag, owell
So yeah your average police officer is around 3 times more dangerous than your pet iguana.
Shadow00 wrote:OK OK let me play devils advocate here.
US alone, averages 2400 daily deaths to various causes.
I mean yeah police brutality and all but it only amounts to 0.001% of daily deaths.
Just to make my point, 2.5 police related deaths a day means 912.5 deaths a year.
Drugs kill 43,000 US people per year.
I'm quite sure that alcohol related deaths are 88,000 per year (US alone).
And then there are house pets, actually averaging 300 US kills per year (2015 stats)
Yeah, weird as hell but if the owners a d-bag, owell
So yeah your average police officer is around 3 times more dangerous than your pet iguana.
Grimreaper666 wrote:Questions you have to ask, how many of these deaths were justified?
One contributing factor to all these deaths might be the fact that we (America) has the highest crime rate in the world.
We have a high crime rate because you can go to jail for rediculous things. Like in Texas, if you live in a certain area of Texas and the grass in your yard is not below 2 inches, you can go to jail for 1-5 years. Sounds like Nazi Germany or Stalinist Russia to me. Keep in mind roughly 75-85% of crimes committed in the United States are non-violent. So yes, we do have the highest crime rate, but what about crime related to violence, like idk, murder?
Nations with high rates of homicde, according to the United Nations Office on Drugs in Crime (presented by Wikipedia) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_co ... icide_rate
Honduras is at number 1. Its completely logical that nations with high rates of crime would have aggressive police forces, which Honduras has (keep in mind Honduras is also a police state with a horrible, violent police force known to constantly steal and murder innocent people, but that is another topic about state terrorism.)
On the list of homicde rates, the USA comes in at 111th place. Yet in the USA, we have a hyper-militarized police force known to abuse its populace.
We also allow people to carry guns making confrontations with police more risky.
Gun control, gun control, gun control.
13% were unarmed. Meaning 118.69 people were unarmed and killed.
or 20% which is 182.5.
Now then, let's just assume that all of these unarmed deaths are unjustified. 118.69 deaths, almost 119. Surely this means we have a police state right?
In 2008, note a quick search could only bring me an estimate of 2008 so the number of total police officers has most likely grown, there were an estimated 705,000 total full time police officers in the united states.
http://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/hrslleo08st.pdf
If we attribute 1 kill per cop. We find that approximately 0.017% of cops are the bad apples.
Obviously our entire police force is bad.
I don't think I've ever stated all police offciers are bad, neither has new agencies like Huffington Post, The Young Turks, Mother Jones, or AntiMedia, who are known to report a lot on US police brutality, have ever generalized the American police force as all bad and corrupt and horrible. Though, on a side note, if the bystanders who have not done anything wrong, and are acclaimed, good cops, you would think they would call their partners out for their abuse, but they don't. Cops that do get fired.
Back on the abuse, just murdering doesn't make you a bad apple. I mean, you don't become a bad cop when you murder a person, justified or not. Cops who steal, abuse, sexually assault, bully, and physically assault are bad cops. Cops who don't follow regulations or normal procedures when confronting citizens are bad cops. Cops who abuse the administrative system and try to extort people for money by ticketing them at road ways known to be tricky. Those are bad cops. Much like, you're not a bad politician when you commit international war crimes, but when you simply break the law, like Rick Perry.
I will remind you that the numbers for total police officers comes from 2008. The number has most likely, almost certainly, increased since then. If we were to assume that our police force was at 1,000,000 the percentage would drop down to approximately 0.0012%.
Honestly, I'm surprised that more people aren't dying.