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To: Drew68

An unarmed black man has a better chance of being killed by lightning than by a police officer.

You need to check out real statistics - or learn to do math.


74 posted on 12/31/2017 11:28:22 AM PST by GOPJ (Intelligence services coup failed. Robert Hanssen (American traitor) to get new roommates soon.)
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To: GOPJ
An unarmed black man has a better chance of being killed by lightning than by a police officer. You need to check out real statistics - or learn to do math.

I learned the other day that someone I've never met can make a prank call to the police who will show up and shoot me dead as soon as I open the door.

Now, I don't really care what the statistics or the math says, I have a problem with this.

77 posted on 12/31/2017 11:51:07 AM PST by Drew68
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To: GOPJ
You need to check out real statistics - or learn to do math.

Statistics and math do little to inform people about many aspects of life. Reality in a statistical sense does not represent how caring human beings decide what is important.

Statistically speaking the rate at which police officers lose their lives is lower than other types of work, so if we choose to ignore anything other than math and statistics why is everybody standing along the road showing their respect to the fallen officer? We don't do that when a truck driver or a roofer dies doing his job.

And statistically speaking it really doesn't matter if there is some continuous loss of lives due to terrorism, or violence, or mass shootings. Your risk of actually being a terror victim is lower than your chance of being killed by lightning.

But life isn't just statistics, and it isn't just math. And many other things are more important to our society.

81 posted on 12/31/2017 7:41:58 PM PST by freeandfreezing
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