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1. SamRei+(OP)[view] [source] 2020-06-23 18:10:42
> Which means your chances of dying during an encounter with a random civilian are about 30 times less than your chance of dying during an encounter with a LEO.

The vast majority of police killings are of people who were armed and chose to get in a fight with them. Even of the few unarmed cases, most of them were asking for it. So if you're just going about minding your own business, the chance is minuscule.

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2. dragon+k1[view] [source] 2020-06-23 18:16:01
>>SamRei+(OP)
> The vast majority of police killings are of people who were armed and chose to get in a fight with them

As the NY State report on police-on-police shootings I posted an article about elsewhere in the thread notes, rapidly turning your head to identify the source of a verbal command from a previoisly unseen police officer is the kind of thing that, to police, constitutes non-compliance and choosing to get in a fight with them. Even when you are an off-duty or plainclothes cop who has called for backup, and, much more likely if you are a Black or Latino out-of-uniform cop in that situation.

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3. SamRei+83[view] [source] [discussion] 2020-06-23 18:23:36
>>dragon+k1
There is a database of police shootings. You can look up a representative sample of cases.
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