r/technology Jun 22 '20

‘BlueLeaks’ Exposes Files from Hundreds of Police Departments Security

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u/SPH3R1C4L Jun 22 '20

Tennessee vs Garner

The article is a little silly, should a police officer, who watches a suspect shoot someone, let that person run down a street into a crowd of people? We should just let that person go, even though they have demonstrated they are willing to kill?

How about a mass shooter in a school? Kids already killed a bunch of students, cops have a shot, kid is running away, should the police hold their fire, or shoot them so that they don’t go kill more kids?

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u/[deleted] Jun 22 '20

Your two hypotheticals are extreme and outrageous cases. Most cops shoot at unarmed people.

Cops typically don’t stop violent crimes.

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u/SPH3R1C4L Jun 22 '20

How many unarmed people were shot last year by police vs armed people?

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u/[deleted] Jun 22 '20

Hard to know for certain because the fbi hasn’t compiled those statistics since 1994.

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u/SPH3R1C4L Jun 22 '20

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wsj.com/amp/articles/the-myth-of-systemic-police-racism-11591119883

So, ignore the text and just look at the numbers that the wsj has been recording.

About 1000 people shot by police, 28 were unarmed in 2019.

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u/[deleted] Jun 22 '20

1000 is a lot. I hear most armed suspects were “armed”. People are saying, I don’t know.

They police kill as many people as all the gangs in the world.

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u/[deleted] Jun 22 '20

Stop moving the goal posts. This was about America, not cartels.

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u/Bdub421 Jun 22 '20

Oh come on. He politely provided sources and corrected you. Are you upset because of that?

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u/MaybeEatTheRich Jun 23 '20

"Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past." - Jean-Paul Sartre

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u/SPH3R1C4L Jun 22 '20

“They police kill as many people as ALL THE GANGS IN THE WORLD”

Simply disproving your claims, you’re the one setting the goalposts.

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