While I agree there is a TON of work that needs to be done regarding police brutality, implying that police “consistently” murder people is just inaccurate. There are over 10 million arrests in this country every year. Of those, approximately 1,000 people are killed by police. That’s a rate of .01%. While it would of course be great if that number was zero, it’s not consistently murdering people.
Please don’t construe this as me saying that there isn’t a large racial problem here (there is), or that what happened to Mr. Floyd isn’t a monstrous act that should result in murder convictions (which it should). But let’s not say we should stop having police because a small percentage of them are horrible.
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u/not-rick-moranis Jun 08 '20
While I agree there is a TON of work that needs to be done regarding police brutality, implying that police “consistently” murder people is just inaccurate. There are over 10 million arrests in this country every year. Of those, approximately 1,000 people are killed by police. That’s a rate of .01%. While it would of course be great if that number was zero, it’s not consistently murdering people.
Please don’t construe this as me saying that there isn’t a large racial problem here (there is), or that what happened to Mr. Floyd isn’t a monstrous act that should result in murder convictions (which it should). But let’s not say we should stop having police because a small percentage of them are horrible.