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Let me ask you a question: How many unarmed people were killed by police in 2020?


https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/investigations/polic...

According to this, 405, which is 405 too many.


So we have 50 total out of thousands, if not millions of potentially negative police interactions.

You can't build a system of robots without some fault-tolerance. How are humans supposed to keep up to that?

Based on this data - how can you make the assumption that a police interaction is an inherent risk to life that is always unjustified?

We mostly pay police to show up and be generally aggravating to people who might be doing bad stuff - in some sense "being sketchy in the vicinity" is a valid reason for police action, which doesn't even always turn into an arrest, let alone a life-or-death situation. Those cases are the vast minority of police interactions total.


I only see 50 there. Are you sure you're looking at unarmed 2020 and not for all years?

I also just looked at a few unarmed shootings at random to get an idea of what they were like. Of the three I looked up I saw one guy who was shot while fighting with a police officer after being discovered at the scene of a burglary. One guy who was shot after a car chase when, after they had caught him, he got behind the wheel of a police car and the police shot him to prevent another chase. One guy, after stabbing someone to death and being approached by multiple police officers, faked a draw to "suicide by cop". My point is, I don't think it's even clear that all (or even most) of the 50 unarmed shootings are unjustified.


People have a right to be armed; why would you consider using your rights to be worth a death sentence?

If it's illegal to be armed, you should change the constitution, rather than asking police to shoot evry armed person they see




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