Quote:Of course, 1 innocent person is far too many...

 

However, the majority of those officer related homicides were justified and upheld in a court of law.  Even if none of those were ruled justified, numbers that indicate you are twice as likely to die of a lightning strike as getting killed by a police officer is hardly proof that criminal police homicide is endemic in the United States.

 

You are far, far, far more likely to be killed by someone who is unemployed than a police officer. 

 

Except someone unemployed doesn't hold a position of authority over you and me. Officers DO hold a position of authority over the average citizen which means when they're responsible for more deaths in America than soldiers in Iraq we have a problem. 

 

We can trade statistics and justifications or causes all day, but the fact remains a militarized police force isn't good for anyone. That was my original point.  

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