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  • tswiftchair@lemm.eetotumblr@lemmy.worldTyranny
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    9 months ago

    …it’s not moving the goalposts. My initial comment stated it was a problem and that’s what my second comment said.

    Again, cancer only kills ~600k in a year, which is only 2/10ths of 1% of the population. Better yet, it kills over 10x more people than car accidents. Does that mean car safety isn’t worth talking about?

    And I’m not saying there isn’t a problem

    This statement makes me think you are saying that:

    …do you see why some people are saying this isn’t really worth talking about?

    I do think this is worth talking about, just like I think the hundreds of death row convictions that have been overturned are worth talking about or the ~500k homeless Americans are worth talking about or the kids who have been killed in school shootings are worth talking about. These are all tiny percentages of people but they are still problems that are preventable so we should try to prevent them, which requires talking about them.


  • tswiftchair@lemm.eetotumblr@lemmy.worldTyranny
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    9 months ago

    Among the 61.5 million U.S. residents age 16 or older in 2018 who had contact with police during the prior 12 months, 1.3 million (2%) experienced threats or use of force from police

    Source (PDF)

    Yes, there are 300 million but that negate the problem of police violence. You could make this argument about anything: gun violence, car crashes, even cancer. Their deaths are all a percent of a percent of the population.

    No one is saying police violence is the number one killer in the country. The issue being raised is one side is saying it’s a problem and the other is saying actually it’s not a problem at all.


  • tswiftchair@lemm.eetotumblr@lemmy.worldTyranny
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    9 months ago

    It’s just an example. Like Breonna Taylor, who did nothing wrong, whose boyfriend (Kenneth Walker) did nothing wrong, while the police did multiple things wrong and ended up killing her.

    But even looking beyond individual examples, the data shows police killed over 1,200 people in 2023. That’s a problem.

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