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How Dangerous Is Police Work?
Misleading statistics have been used to distort the real perils of walking a beat.
It was a remarkable statistic that I first saw in a tweet by conservative YouTuber Steven Crowder, tracked to a recent article in Ben Shapiro’s Daily Wire and then found the…
- Justin Fox
- Bloomberg
In 2015, a police officer was 18.5 times more likely to be killed by a black male than an unarmed black male was to be killed by a police officer.
Like a lot of people I have become more familiar with police-violence statistics in recent weeks than I ever really wanted to be, so I knew it was…