US Cops Shoot Dead Immobilized Double Amputee

She was commendable yes.

A quick Google tells me there were over 7.5 million arrests in the US in 2020. In the same year, 1020 people died who were shot by cops. I can't get figures for how many people cops shot in the same year, Google is giving me nothing but deaths, not just shot. But with 1020 deaths, I can't imagine the number of shot is too much higher. Open to clarification here. And going by some posters on here, if a cop shoots you they shoot to kill so shouldn't be that much higher then.

So I don't think it's as big an issue as it's being made out to be, just that it's a pushed, visible issue. The problem with any police force, is that it's staffed by humans. And because of that, they can't be perfect. Crazy people will get in and do crazy things. Cliques form because it's human nature, mob mentality can happen with just a handful of people. It obviously needs to be dealt with properly, but what stats I can get make me think it's nowhere near as bad as media portrays it. Seems like most arrests are just that, an arrest, nothing more.

And I couldn't be bothered going into why some areas are more likely to involve cop shootings, gang culture, society in general, and all the other stuff behind it. It's not a problem that can be solved overnight, and it's literally impossible to oversee it 100%. Also, it's 'Merica. Country is messed up in general. Just glad I don't live there. AGS are saints in comparison.

Bottom line, if Lowe dropped his knife when told to and complied with the officer's lawful commands, he'd be alive today. He'd be in jail, but he'd be alive.

Who says that's the bottom line though, apart from you.

My bottom line is that police should only be exercising lethal force when there is an imminent danger. They shouldn't be shooting anybody based on 'what ifs', and what they might do. It should only be based on what they're about to do.

And this guy wasn't about to do anything. He wasn't an imminent threat.

I already addressed that, though. Over a million dead americans and in 2020, the number of killings went up, in 2021, 2022, and 2023 again as well.

The way you've said it it sounds like you lay the feet on Black culture, not on Blue culture, or American culture. All at the feet of Black people. Repeating a cycle that hasn't stopped since the Slave Patrols.

This is categorically false. We don't even close 55% of murders to possibly know who is committing over half.

"In the most recent data available from the FBI, the clearance rate hit an all-time low of just over 50 percent."

"involved" also is one of those heavy-lifting words. Victims of police violence are "involved."

Because of the words you put in writing?

Now, maybe you can say I have this wrong, but to me this reads as 'white people commit the majority of crimes' because of the 'overly long conversation about race stats' - they are 75.8% of the population. But black people are involved in over 50% of the murders [sic] because of "culture" - I apologize if I misconstrued you thusly.

re: slave patrols - not you in particular - this conversation is bigger than anyone. But the fact that the culture has ingrained the stereotype Blacks are racially prone to break the law; which began because, as early as slave patrols, etc many more laws targeted them; in Jim Crow, many more policing tactics (and laws) (and lynch mobs) targeted them as well; and race based policing statistics capture only further ingrains this, in concert with the other cultural factors you are referencing, which all cross-interact, a Black neighborhood that is constantly torn down by lynchings and over policing [parents in jail, kids in fostering, etc] across decades cannot build wealth, stability, and will be prone to more of the factors that result in onset crime, including self-reliance on vigilantism or, yes, gangs.

Yeah, 'meh,' 'boring,' just lives, lol. Done, done, onto the next one.

Not 'everything' just basic concepts like Equal Protection.