[in front of a protesting crowd, two characters are talking]
[blue, serious] Violence is never the solution
[purple, smug] Agreed, let’s disarm the police
[blue is now shown angrily gesticulating, sweating bullets]
NO,
NOT
LIKE
THIS
[in front of a protesting crowd, two characters are talking]
[blue, serious] Violence is never the solution
[purple, smug] Agreed, let’s disarm the police
[blue is now shown angrily gesticulating, sweating bullets]
NO,
NOT
LIKE
THIS
Those statistics can’t be directly compared to each other because the number of mass shooters is significantly lower than the amount of police interactions with the public.
It’s like saying more people die in crashes with combustion vehicles compared to EVs. Of course that’s true because there’s more combustion vehicles on the road.
You need a ratio to do any comparison here.
we’re not calculating how much more dangerous a cop is compared to a mass shooter.
It showcases that Americans are more likely to be killed by a police officer than a mass shooter. and that police must change in a very fundamental way, from abolishing to defunding it and definitely disarm them from lethal weapons, and make it illegal for them to misuse force (criminal prosecution for assault with no police immunity)
Then why, in your very next sentence, do you compare how dangerous a cop is to a mass shooter?
I’m not saying you’re wrong at all, I’m saying the figures being used don’t support that assessment. They’re just numbers without any meaningful context to compare them with.
But, it’s true, Cops kill more people than mass shooters. not per individual.
something must be done, ending qualified immunity is barely the beginning.
Qualified immunity is only protection against civil litigation.
How do you feel about doctors killing 50-100x as many Americans per year as cops do?
Do you make the same calls to abolish medicine and hospitals?
it means you’re an idiot. the cops aren’t preventing death with limited success, they are the ones killing people.
Abolishing cops (use funding for actual community) will lower the amount of death they cause. Abolishing doctors (already a thing given it’s provatised and therefore not even in the same conversation) will only increase death.
Please take a chance to think before you type
What question are you answering with that?
“it means you’re an idiot.”
or
“it means you’re an idiot.”
it means your comparison is disingenuous, and either you’re a troll stupid enough to call that a “gotcha” or just plain stupid.
imagine the statement of “going too fast is dangerous and causes a lot of death”, and someone replies “well, you’re using a phone that moves information packets at nearly the speed of light? should we ban phones?”
Lots of people want medical practice to be changed. If you’re fat, a woman, a POC, a trans person, or neurodivergent, you’d know why a lot of those people just don’t fucking trust doctors at all.
I haven’t heard a single person call for doctors to be abolished, despite them being 50-100x more deadly, and yes, despite them being just as bigoted as cops, as you rightfully point out.
Cops kill people directly, doctors usually don’t. That’s the difference. My comparison between cops and mass shooters was about how many people they kill directly. Doctors don’t usually murder people.
So intent is the main thing, for you? One malicious murder is worse than a hundred negligent manslaughters?
Is there not more intent to murder involved in a mass shooter than a cop shooting someone trying to shoot the cop? Or are you one of those people who thinks that cops only sign up to be cops because they’ll have a better chance to kill people, and every single death-by-cop is murder, even in self-defense?
Cops have a less dangerous job than pizza delivery. Yes, per capita. And COVID or a cop’s own bad driving is more likely to kill them than someone with a gun.
If you wouldn’t accept a pizza delivery kid blowing someone away because they reached into their pocket, you shouldn’t accept it from a cop.
Depending on your definition of “less dangerous,” yeah. Doesn’t really refute my argument, though. Did you want to divert the discussion with that Red Herring because you realized you were wrong or did you just want to talk about something else today and didn’t realize that’s outside the scope of this discussion?
Straw-man.
This is about both of those as a collective, not per capita. The context is pretty clear here.
The context here is throwing out numbers unrelated to each other and coming to conclusions based on feelings.
Making it a per capita ratio is how you add the context.
When we’re trying to do an Apples to Apples comparison, implying cops are more deadly than mass shooters, context is important.
Put a kid in front of a mass shooter, they’ll shoot them.
Put a kid in front of a cop, they’ll shoot them 0.00001% of the time (citation needed, feel free to do the math on total police encounters vs. shootings of children).
That’s bad, but to state or imply that they’re even close to as bad is ridiculous and makes people interested in police reform look ridiculous.
Context doesn’t bring dead people back to life. Reducing higher numbers of dead to a “per capita” statistic is straight up lying to dismiss the pain of communities destroyed by police violence.
Unless they’re black and holding something, on which case it becomes 100%.
You cannot reform the police. If you heard what they say about civilians in a daily basis you’d be demanding all of their heads on pikes like everyone who wants ICE to be abolished and every agent trialed for crimes against humanity.
True, but refutes nothing I said.
I don’t think you know what “lying” means.
A straight up lie. See earlier point about ridiculous arguments.
You definitely can. Virtually all societies have improved their police over the short and long term.
No I wouldn’t. I generally do not call for the execution of assholes, let alone displaying their corpses to out-do them on cruelty.
Look up Tamir Rice.
Rread this article about how the police works internally by an ex-officer. There is nothing that can be done at this point to reform the American police other than a complete do-over.
I’m well aware of Tamir Rice. You’re completely unaware of how statistics work.
Unless you think Tamir Rice is 100% of black children holding things, and no black child has ever held anything before nor will hold anything again? That’s your position here?
So your counter to my statement of fact that law enforcement has been reformed over time is some interview with a single guy, and your re-statement of an impossible to prove or disprove position?
M8, are you intentionally wasting both of our time? What are you trying to accomplish by such obvious bad faith tactics?