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originally posted by: SlapMonkey
originally posted by: safetymeeting
Does that mean any time I leave my house I automatically have a 1 in 260,000 chance of losing my life to the hands of a police officer?
a reply to: SlapMonkey
No. Not at all. That just means that there are 260,000 LEOs on-duty at any given time in America, on average.
It's in bold in my comment...a person dies at the hands of an LEO once every 15,294 hours. That's a little more than a day, and that doesn't even break it down further as to supposed justified or unjustified homicides. Of course, if you wanted to get super specific, you'd need to divide that by the amount of officers on-duty in a specific jurisdiction during a specific shift. But I don't have time for that. I know if my city, there are maybe 20 officers on patrol at a given time, so that would equal to about one homicide every 765 hours, or one every 32 days. Of course, that's a generalization, and there hasn't been one in my town for months, if not years, especially a controversial or unjusitified one. All of these numbers don't take into account the variables like clusters (big cities) and places that haven't had any for decades. All of this is relevant to the conversation, but for averages like I did, they're not.
I think you'll be okay if you don't act like a jackass around an officer...hell, even if you do, the odds are still in your favor of walking away unharmed.
originally posted by: ~Lucidity
Interesting database.
I'm not through them all yet, but judging from the links I've followed so far, it seems to me that we wouldn't be having this issue if people didn't point guns or fire at officers or other people.
originally posted by: ~Lucidity
Interesting database.
I'm not through them all yet, but judging from the links I've followed so far, it seems to me that we wouldn't be having this issue if people didn't point guns or fire at officers or other people.
originally posted by: ~Lucidity
a reply to: smurfy
Police are people too, so what's your point?
originally posted by: ~Lucidity
a reply to: smurfy
I posted stats and asked you a legitimate question. Unruly people. Unruly police? It happens. People, all people, make mistakes for a myriad of reasons.
And why don't you spend some time looking up the stats and doing some math instead of just posting the clickbait videos, all of which we've all already seen. Videos that are, despite what you appear to believe, statistically rare albeit sensationalistic magnets to people like you.
Reality check yourself.
And don't f**cking call me babe.
originally posted by: ~Lucidity
a reply to: smurfy
Police are people too, so what's your point?
Broward County, FL — A former Florida police officer has admitted to forcing undocumented immigrants into having sex with him.
Jonathan Bleiweiss, 34, pleaded guilty to an array of charges last week, admitting to 14 counts of armed false imprisonment, 15 counts of battery and four counts of stalking.
However, he avoided all of the charges with “sex” in them. Most likely due to his police officer status, this former Broward Sheriff’s deputy was given an insultingly lenient plea deal. As part of that deal, Bleiweiss did not face charges of sexual battery, and as such will not be required by the state of Florida to register as a sex offender.
originally posted by: AlaskanDad
Yes cops are people too, and a lot of them are notnicemoral people. There should be no special treatment of them when the do wrong, they too should be held responsible for their crime.
If you don't like the laws in your country, by the way, you can always move.