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>>dtagam+(OP)
There are lots and lots of mishaps in many professions, sometimes with deadly consequences. The United States is a country of 330 million people. Suppose an event is so unlikely it only has 1 in a billion chance of happening--it will happen once ever 4 days on average!

Medical errors, for example, are estimated to cause as many as 250,000 deaths per year [1].

There are millions and millions of daily interactions between police and civilians every year. Sadly, there will be some mistakes, some of which will be caught on camera.

It's important to be aware that what the media can be random, and media coverage is not always correlated with how important or prevalent a problem is.

[1] Johns Hopkins: https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/media/releases/study_su...

>>marcel+Oq
You have completely bastardized the meaning of statistics.

Statistics are meant to understand and bring meaning to chaotic events, like random car accidents, or randomly rolling a dice, or random mechanical failure of some complex system.

Statistics doesn’t work so well, when human interactions become involved.

And it doesn’t work well in this situation, when it comes to policing, where the officer is of the predominant ethnicity, and the victim is of a minority ethnicity.

However, you can probably infer that if the policing is done where the ethnicity of the officer and the civilian, is of a primary vs. minority ethnicity, that there will be enhanced levels of violence involved. This can be one way to infer the statistics.

At a fundamental level, there are human biases involved. There is no escaping this.

It’s possible that if you and the police officer are of the same ethnicity, then you likely have a lower chance of being assaulted or harassed by the police officer.

However, if you are a minority, or of a different ethnicity than the police officer which is of the primary ethnicity, then your probability of being assaulted or harassed by the officer goes up significantly.

The police enforcement system, is really a reflection of society.

Because it is the society that puts these police officers into positions of authority, and it is the same society that keeps them in authority.

So if the police system is corrupt, then at a fundamental level, the society is corrupt.

You can’t fix the problem, if you can’t even acknowledge that you have a problem.

It’s like Trump’s administration that recently said: There is no systemic racism in American Law Enforcement.

Thus, how can you fix something, if you can’t even acknowledge it.