Cop Shot in KC

[SteelCitySouth]

(07-20-2016, 11:58 AM)PhilHos Wrote: To be fair, though, every black person shot nowadays by a police officer is paraded as racially motivated even if the evidence exonerates the police officer.

(07-20-2016, 01:38 PM)yellowxdiscipline Wrote: Cops are shot and killed in the line of duty all the time, but no one bats an eye. Yet the moment a cop uses deadly force everyone loses their mind.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/investigative/wp/2015/12/26/2015/12/26/a-year-of-reckoning-police-fatally-shoot-nearly-1000/


40% of 1000 = 400.  I don't think there were 400 times last year where everyone lost their minds.  Roughly 40 were unarmed and we didn't have 40 "lose our mind" moments last year.

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/12/29/461402091/number-of-police-officers-killed-by-gunfire-fell-14-percent-in-2015-study-says

Last year represented a 15% decrease in officers being killed in the line of duty. We can surmount that unfortunately and sadly that number will rise this year.

So what's the point of my post?  Is it to side with the civilians being shot?  No.  Is it to make some comparison of those civilians and those officers being shot and killed?  No.  The purpose of my post is to point out the exaggerations being made about the actual issues we have right now.  Those exaggerations provide no haven for thought on how to remedy the problems we have.  It only further exacerbates it.