If you live in California, sometimes one big Mexican woman is more intimidating than a big black man.

A quick Google on my lunch showed it's closer to 1cop for every 5 deaths. But I didn't get into how many of the 5 are unarmedbor innocent.

There is no evidence that undercover cars are effective at curbing speeding violations. The only purpose an unmarked car has pulling people over is to commit highway robbery raise revenues. Some states have outlawed unmarked cars for that very reason. Also because it's possibly unsafe for travelers.



http://www.odmp.org/search/year

http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/another-much-higher-count-of-police-homicides/

Citations given.

This post was edited by Santara on Aug 10 2015 03:38pm

Nor would i suggest they are effective at this at all. This officer however wasnt in an unmarked car to be sneaky (i dont think) he's simply a detective, which almost all drive unmarked cars.

We can argue till we're blue in the face about the merit of ticketing a victimless crime like speeding all day, but i feel that the merit of an undercover/detective isnt much different than a regular cop if your perspective is that speeding shouldnt be illegal in the first place (as i am guessing you believe).

TBH there isnt much evidence that cops in general are good at curbing speeding in any area other than their line of sight. The signs that tell you your speed, lower speed limits, signs on corners giving suggestions of the speed you should take them at, etc all suck at stopping people from speeding.



But u posted its 100 to 1. That would mean 10 cops got killed last year. I believe u meant 10:1.

This post was edited by thesnipa on Aug 10 2015 03:43pm

No, I do not mean 10:1. The bold are the only ones which are conceivably due to direct cause by the criminal.



...so 25 cops killed by criminals this year, which is 2/3 done, so let's say the rate will amount to 40ish over the year. Now contrast that with the rough 1100 people killed by police a year. Sure, it isn't 100:1, but 27:1 isn't a pretty stat.

Do you have stats on those 1100 deaths? Or are you just assuming everyone that gets shot by police is a shining pillar of society?

The official #s ive seen on cops killed in duty show 114 for 2014. From a police organization, i might not trust their numbers on much but # of cops killed is something i think they report pretty reliably.

Its still dreadfully close to 10:1 IMO.

Killed while on duty and killed by criminals are two VERY different thigs.

It's linked in the 538 post.

Ahhh. At work.. cant click links... something something

The website I linked shows cops who died on duty, which a subset thereof would be "cops killed by criminals."

It's nearly 3x as bad as 10:1.