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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Trumpled (Alternative Leading)
Last post by Thryleon -Either the cops there are OTT, or these innocent people are not so innocent and there is scope for a middle ground there, because not all incidents (and officers) would be the same.
Before we worry too much about the number of incidents, this is data without context. The USA is a population of what, 350 million?
We get a disproportionate access to their media over any other nation so we hear more about their dirty laundry than most other countries, and you need to put these incidents in rates of incident per capita to make a meaningful comparison to anywhere else in the world aside from maybe the UK which comes in at an estimated 70 million odd, so 1/5th the size.
Is their rate of incident really that much higher?
Im not wedded to an outcome there, just challenging people to think more critically about these things. Two things can be true at the same time here too. This officer may very well have murdered in cold blood, and this may not speak for anything but an officer who needs to be stood down.