Deputy draws gun on family because of Wal-Mart employee's mistake.

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21. I think it might be a better tact...

...to complain about the people who flood the streets with handguns and create the paranoia in the first place: that's the real problem.

There aren't accurate national statistics - looking at some of the stories I get get about a 35% rate of unarmed. So guessing that there are perhaps maybe 2-3 thousand police related shootings every year, maybe 1,000 - of whom we have no idea on average what occurred. I don't like it and the police on average want to get better. Not denying there are bad cops at all; they're just a minority that actually go as far as to lie about shootings and plant evidence. You probably can't produce any evidence otherwise - or make a logical argument against that notion.

http://www.chron.com/news/article/One-in-three-police-shootings-involve-unarmed-1651275.php

g. Officers from the best-performing agency in the study shot unarmed subjects 24% of the time. The other agencies had “frequency” scores of nearly 40% or more, with participants from one agency shooting nearly half of the unarmed suspects they confronted in the scenarios. “These distinct differences,” Aveni states, “seem directly attributable to training.

http://www.policeone.com/officer-shootings/articles/1665473-What-the-new-study-of-shootings-of-unarmed-suspects-means-to-you/

It's a shitty situation all around.