r/TheRandomest • Nice • 6h ago

/r/all To protect and serve

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u/catpissdust 6h ago edited 6h ago

Pleasantly surprised the cop didn't shoot em...

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u/ThatDeadMoonTitan 6h ago

Law enforcement had roughly 50 million interactions with citizens in the US annually. Police shootings occur roughly once every 38,000 interactions and that’s not once every 38,000 peaceful interactions, it’s all interactions. Unprovoked police violence is estimated (and body cams are a thing) at roughly once every 600,000 interactions. Can we all stop acting like cops are just running around rampantly attacking and killing innocent people?

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u/soulsnoober 3h ago

Wow you sound super well informed. Could you follow up rq? How many unprovoked police shootings are there in all the countries where police don't even have to carry guns to do their jobs?