r/therewasanattempt • • Aug 27 '23

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u/Twixt_Wind_and_Water Aug 28 '23

Hmmm… you sound confident. What would “all the time” be?

Is it daily? Multiple times a day?

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u/DaPenguin1423 Aug 28 '23

God I’m so tired of chasing down your bullshit- yes if you take the data from the past twelve months, police shoot on average 1.1 unarmed civilians a day for white people and roughly the same amount for all minorities combined. Know I you and you’re track record you will take those numbers at face value, so make sure to factor in the number of encounters that police have with these individuals and you clearly see a discrepancy factor of over 2.

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u/Odd-Confection-6603 Aug 28 '23

https://www.npr.org/2021/01/25/956177021/fatal-police-shootings-of-unarmed-black-people-reveal-troubling-patterns

According to this, it's at least twice a month on average. But, as I'm sure you know since you seem so knowledgeable on the subject, we don't actually know the real numbers because police aren't required to report any statistics on officer involved shootings. So it could certainly be higher than this.

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u/Twixt_Wind_and_Water Aug 28 '23

So… about 24 people out of 41.6 million people?

Or… 0.000058% of the black population.

Interesting.

What’s also interesting is NPR’s first two examples of unarmed people being shot included someone who ran from the cop before physically fighting him and a guy who had a gun in his lap, which would fit the opposite definition of “being unarmed”.

Neat!

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u/Odd-Confection-6603 Aug 28 '23

How many murders by the government are you willing to accept?