Quote (Black XistenZ @ May 26 2021 01:08pm)
I get that, and my last line about Chicago was of course hyperbole. It still seems to me as if these official numbers understate gang violence. This is probably a field where the dark figure of crime is particularly large, based on the neighborhoods in which gangs are operating, the general level of crime, the fear of the residents, the illegal status of many people living there (i.e. if they get murdered, it can be swept under the rug without authorities noticing), and so on.
Well, your own source says that gangs account for just 13% of all homicides. Cops, on the other hand, have to deal with all murderers and criminals, not just gangs. If one side has to deal with 100% of all criminals and kills 6 people per day in the process (most of them in self-defense!), and the other side accounts for 13% of crime and kills 5.2 people per day in the process (almost none of them for justified reason), then the latter group is clearly much more murderous despite an (ostensibly) lower absolute number of killings.
The point made by this tweet draws a really crappy false equivalence. Your point that being a cop is not as dangerous or stressful as cops and their lobbyists claim to be is valid, but the argument from the tweet is not suitable to support this point.
And like I stressed many times before whenever this debate came up: there is tremendous risk stratification between different cops. Being a cop in a posh suburb is not a tough job. Being a cop in an inner city warzone is. At least the cops who are truly serving the ghetto are subject to great risk and have a right to complain.
the tweet itself clearly states cops normally only kill half as many people as gangs. the uptick again is noteworthy. it was just a cheeky tweet tbh.
all of the played out context is still valid, cops mostly kill violent criminals, gang members mostly kill gang members and RARELY target cops, being a cop in the south side of Chi is worse than Naperville, etc etc etc.
if the narrative that being a cop is so stressful wasnt used to justify thugery so often i wouldnt bother attacking it. its simply too pervasive.
ask your average black and blue flag flying idiot how many cops they think are killed intentionally nationwide per year and you'll hear 500, 1000, or even more. its 50. 1 per state. five, zero.