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Scary police video
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The wild moments that could have lead to tragedy at 11.matt1 wrote: ↑Sat Nov 11, 2023 9:27 pmTMZ ALERT!!!!! https://www.tmz.com/2023/11/10/florida- ... y-sheriff/
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Fascinating.
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Deleted User 9015
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Disgusting. This man deserves serious jailtime. Just because there a lot of bad cops out there who use excessive force against citizens doesn't mean that citizens get to target cops.
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"A lot"?
Even the California Innocence Project puts the number at at about 1%.
https://californiainnocenceproject.org/ ... isconduct/
The box that many broadcasters won’t look outside of was made in 1969 and hasn’t changed significantly since.
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Deleted User 9015
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Yes, "a lot"Plate Cap wrote: ↑Sun Nov 12, 2023 9:36 pm"A lot"?
Even the California Innocence Project puts the number at at about 1%.
https://californiainnocenceproject.org/ ... isconduct/
Let's look at violent crimes among the population at-large. In 2020, there were 429,470 arrests for violent crimes. There were 258.3 million adults in the US in 2020. The arrest to adult percentage was 0.166%. Assuming the stat you cite, the frequency of excessive force used by law enforcement officers is 6-7 times greater than the arrests for violent crimes among the population as a whole.
Keep two facts in mind as well. This is the number of arrests for the year. An arrest is not a conviction and one person can be arrested multiple times for violent crimes, meaning that the frequency is most likely lower, unless every arrest led to a conviction and every one of the 429,470 was arrested one time.
So, assuming 1% is true, it still is "a lot", especially relatively speaking.
Sure, a cop is more likely to be in a situation where force is needed, but based on the stat you cited, law enforcement officers, the people trusted to maintain public safety, have a rate of excessive force that is 6-7 times greater (or possibly even greater) than citizen arrests for violent crimes.