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Dark_Feanor on 08 July 2016
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MTZehvor said:
Dark_Feanor said:
Violence in the USA is droping at a consistent rate since the 90s.

I don't think anything went wrong if you look at the hard cold data from the past and today. The chances of a black man being killed a cop is ridiculously low, specialy if you are not doing anything wrong.

Simultaneously, police killings are on the rise, having gone from just a little over 300 in 1993 to 461 in 2013. The number of police being killed in the line of duty has increased as well. Even if "violence" as a whole is decreasing, the specific topic we're looking at, police violence, is on the rise.

I do agree that police have an extremely tough job, and I'm by no means trying to disparage them outside of the few that have abused their power. Thier job is one I would never want.

USA population in 1993 was 250mi that gives 0,12 per 100k

USA population in 2016 is 320mi them we have 0,14 per 100k

This 20% incrise is mostly noise, since the numbers are so low. This is literally "one in a million" cases. Far more people in the USA dies from you have more than 100x chances of dying from the flu than being shot by the police.