• michaelmrose@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    Police have literally millions of interactions with people acting erratically per year in the US. All of Europe has millions of interactions per year.

    Our police are defective not because they literally massacre every person acting erratically but because between near a million sworn officers dealing with 100s of millions of people roughly a thousand kill someone this year. This is defective because others deal with similar situations whilst killing almost none.

    Setting up a fantasy world where a single interaction is sure to lead to fatality is bad because its trivially disproved and the dismissal risks dismissing the ACTUAL problem of those thousand poor fuckers who died many for no good reason.