Link?

 

Not only do I believe that yes, such a statistic is very small, I have a hard time believing we're "70 times higher" than other first world countries unless they simply aren't enforcing the law at the same rate we are.  Of course there's no incident if you turn your back on crime.  There's qualitative analysis that must accompany any quantitative analysis to get a more complete picture.

 

But then, statistics are routinely abused to tell stories that aren't true.  There's only so much they tell, yet the wrong conclusions are drawn from them or are used to back arguments that simply don't fit.  This seems like one of those cases to me.

 

The false fear or expectation of altercation during a police engagement is simply manufactured one by those pushing a dangerous agenda.  And because of that, is a direct cause of leading to more such unnecessary and unfortunate incidents.

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