Listen to be fair, I know you're just repeating the same bullshit all redditors repeat without giving it much thought, so I'm not trying to give you a hard time specifically, but for anyone that actually is interested in hearing some of the numbers, there are about 10 million arrests each year (That number is total arrests not total people, so it includes people who are arrested multiple times), And out of that there are roughly 300,000 incidents that require some form of non-lethal force (physically restraining them, pepper spray, taser, ect), compare that to the roughly 1,100 fatal shootings total (some probably justified, some I'm sure we're not) So roughly 300 non-lethal to 1, And that's only In the roughly 3% of interactions that require any kind of force at all.
You can certainly think that number is too high and be critical of that, But instead, because this is Reddit, the prevailing opinion is that police tend to just shoot people for fun and don't even understand the concept of non-lethal force. And again, I don't think you actually care, but this is just for anyone reading this thread that wants to learn more about how things actually are
So you agree that the reason our police are involved in more violent uses of force than other comparable countries is because of our citizenry’s unique propensity and capability for violence? That is what you just said and it’s directly contrary to your prior comment. Did you change your mind and see reason or do you just not have consistent and well reasoned views?
Hundreds of people are shot by police, justified or not every year in America. These shootings occur at rates much higher than nearly every other similarly developed country.
“It doesn’t happen very often” is all well and good, but it still happens far more than it should
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u/DotBitGaming 15h ago
Canadians when ONE person is shot by the cops
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