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In reply to the discussion: Judge won't grant immunity to police, doctor who medically paralyzed man for cavity search [View all]mythology
(9,527 posts)Your argument is based on an assumption that you haven't even tried to prove. You can say that when video is available on excessive force claims, the police reports don't match the video. But you have provided exactly zero statistical evidence of this. You can obviously point to instances, but you're relying on a biased source in that the media will more likely to report on things like protests or obviously wrong situations. How often do claims of excessive force dissipate when the video does match and thus never make the news? You don't know that. It would be possible to find out, but that would require a lot of work.
But here's a statistic that works against your theory that there are virtually no good cops. The complaint rate for police excessive use of force was 6.6 per 100 officers. That's the complaint rate, not the rate at which evidence of excessive use of force was found.
The evidence isn't there at this point to support the assumption you start your logical proof with. That isn't to say that you're wrong, but you haven't presented anything to support it.
http://journalistsresource.org/studies/government/criminal-justice/police-reasonable-force-brutality-race-research-review-statistics