Stats on police killings

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7. It couldn't say "armed criminals."

At best, it could say "armed suspects," but since most weren't suspected of anything that had much evidence behind it even that word is overreaching.

As for "Why is being mentally troubled or running away legitimate reasons to be gunned down?" ... They're not. If they were, they would be separate crimes under the criminal statute with execution by firing squad as licit penalties.

We're not talking nuance here, we're talking entirely different logical categories that form a much broader set of categories that exists to fit the data into. Not the stunted set that many bring to the table and insist be imposed on the data. Even then, that expanded set of categories is still insufficient for adequate description of the range of data, but it's all that (statute and case) law provides for at present. "Legitimate" versus "not culpable", for instance. "Provably criminal" versus "reasonable fear".