(06-02-2020, 11:45 AM)flsprtsgod Wrote:

(06-02-2020, 11:26 AM)JagJohn Wrote: I have restrained from getting into a "my stat is bigger than your stat" battle on here, because, frankly, both sides of the argument naturally distrust the sources of the other. It turns into a pissing match that serves no purpose.

But, considering we have people on here who are so sure that statistics have "proved" police violence against black people to be a false narrative, I feel the need to at least post something (and there are many many more sources I could use here) that shows, absolutely, there is no proof of this. You can argue that some studies have shown this, others have shown that... But you simply can't say it has been proven.

https://journalistsresource.org/studies/...white-men/

In a country of 300+ million people with 6 million violent incidents per year we have somewhere between 600 and 3,500 police killings (combined justified and not) per year. The scope and scale is microscopic.

A few points:
1) these numbers really don't seem microscopic when we are talking about something like killings
2) the protest is not purely about police killings, it's about all interactions with police officers and POC.
3) once again, you present your statistics as though they are the final say, end of argument. They really aren't.

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