Cop Shot in KC

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(07-20-2016, 02:36 PM)SteelCitySouth Wrote: 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.

One exaggeration could be that police only shoot and kill blacks, when nearly 50% of all police shootings were actually white. Almost twice the amount of blacks, but no one is out protesting on their behalf.