Americans Killed by Cops Now Outnumber Americans Killed in Iraq War

[Orrex]

32. Better. But look closely:

Ross analyzed 1,000 randomly selected cases published by federal courts from 1989 to 2012, involving police use of deadly force and allegations of constitutional violations under section 1983 of the federal Civil Rights Act.

So what you're citing is a specific category of incidents of deadly force, of which less than 20% involved an unarmed suspect.

First, you either need to abandon your 30% figure or provide support for it, because the current citation contradicts it.

Second, you are making an unsupported leap between the use of deadly force in a specific type of situation and the use of force in all police encounters, but you are presenting your statistics as if they apply across the board. I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and assume that this is an honest mistake of methodology on your part rather than a deliberate attempt at deception, but you need to rephrase your assertion in either case.


From our interaction so far, I suspect that you'll claim that I "don't like" your documentation, or that I'm "denying reality," as you have claimed previously. Neither of these is accurate; I am in fact pointing out how your chosen source material doesn't support the claims that you're making.

Intellectual honesty should inspire you to change your assertions to be consistent with your sources or else find other sources that support your assertions. Simply attacking someone for disagreeing with you is sloppy and irresponsible.