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In reply to the discussion: There are roughly 800,000 cops in the United States... [View all]Egalitarian Thug
(12,448 posts)40. You're right, I mis-read the reply. It doesn't change the point at all. n/t
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309 U.S. deaths by police action in 2013. 47 deaths by police action in the UK since 1922.
pa28
Feb 2014
#2
Yes, but we have some of the best gun control around, and you have some of the worst.
Donald Ian Rankin
Feb 2014
#67
The percentage of bad cops approaches 100. All you have to do is judge it rationally.
Egalitarian Thug
Feb 2014
#3
Do you really not realize that yes, this is the only thing that matters regarding this issue?
Egalitarian Thug
Feb 2014
#12
No, it isn't. FFS, have we fallen so far down the rabbit hole that even this most fundamental
Egalitarian Thug
Feb 2014
#15
It must be just awful living your entire life so in fear of bogey-men that
Egalitarian Thug
Feb 2014
#71
IOW, our police kill more Americans every year that the most successful terrorist attack in history.
Egalitarian Thug
Feb 2014
#16
Something like 31000 a year die from guns here and another 33000 in traffic accidents
struggle4progress
Feb 2014
#19
Neither guns, motor vehicles, nor even terrorists are granted special license
Egalitarian Thug
Feb 2014
#20
It's a bundle of problems worth considering, and if you have any useful ideas, I'm sure
struggle4progress
Feb 2014
#21
There are literally thousands of useful plans out there. Lack of alternatives is nowhere near
Egalitarian Thug
Feb 2014
#22
I'm a radical. Libertarian, Communist, left-wing, hippie, looney, racist, feminazi, purist,
Egalitarian Thug
Feb 2014
#36
I have an idea not sure if its a good one...all complaints against police are filed by and interview
Drew Richards
Feb 2014
#90
I think only larger police departments have something an Internal Affairs
struggle4progress
Feb 2014
#91
You're right, I mis-read the reply. It doesn't change the point at all. n/t
Egalitarian Thug
Feb 2014
#40
"a few bad apples spoils the barrel." is the full term, as Scootaloo said
AZ Progressive
Feb 2014
#26
I'm sure all the dead victims and the families left behind appreciate your statistic.
Rex
Feb 2014
#50
It wouldn't be wrong to say that there's something wrong with the military, or with the police.
Silent3
Feb 2014
#55
Cops as the base of the percentage seems wrong, indeed percentages seem minimally useful
HereSince1628
Feb 2014
#59
There's nothing in what I wrote to suggest that simple percentages are the be-all...
Silent3
Feb 2014
#65
Percentages, like anecdotes must be considered carefully and compared to something
HereSince1628
Feb 2014
#69
Where's the threshold between appropriately sensitive and unrealistically idealistic?
Silent3
Feb 2014
#75
Yes, exactly. It's a critical issue, and not really a matter of statistics per se
HereSince1628
Feb 2014
#86
so many police because of the legal seizures of cash and assets from their 'war on drugs.'
Sunlei
Feb 2014
#70
It isn't just an issue of mental illness...it's the problem of cops dealing with noncompliance
HereSince1628
Feb 2014
#87