Reddit reviews In Context: Understanding Police Killings of Unarmed Civilians

> Last year, 64 police officers were shot and killed

Source please? I'm signed up to the mailing list for ODMP (Officer Down Memorial Page) so I get an email every time an officer dies.

They have it on record that 73 officers died last year. Or were you JUST going by shooting statistics? And not stabbings or otherwise

>44 unarmed civilians were shot and killed by the police. Even when no weapons at all are present, the police seem disproportionately trigger-happy out there.

You need to take it literally case by case, unarmed does NOT mean not dangerous as so many people love to assume, do yourself a favor and check out the book In Context: Understanding Police Killings of Unarmed Civilians it's the most detailed look into that issue that I have found.

Cops are not trigger happy, majority of cops never fire their service weapon during the lifetime of their career.

>It's also worth noting that Chauffeurs & Taxi drivers are both more likely to die on the job overall than police and more likely to be killed by violence while on the job than the police.

So? I have people spout at me that being a trashman is more dangerous, the sole difference is that people are not LOOKING to kill you necessarily, people do not hate taxi drivers, people do want to kill and do hate the police. The difference is working in a field where people want to kill you compared to the sometimes occupational hazard of working as a clerk and getting robbed or killed.

Being a trashman is only dangerous because of accidents that happen that could usually be avoided, my father, uncle and his wife all work as trash collectors and my father was in a pretty bad accident that was in the local paper of him being airlifted and he had a concussion, he is still more worried about me wanting to be a cop than if I were to tell him I wanted to be a trashman. That tells you something.

>And yet if Taxi Drivers had shot 44 unarmed people last year, I doubt there would be nearly as many people jumping in to defend them.

The drivers would need to prove that they had a reasonable fear for their life, just like every civilian does and every cop does when taking someone's life in self defense. If you don't agree with the judge and jury that is your problem.

>If we cannot even hold our police to the same standards (much less higher standards) of conduct than Taxi drivers, then there is a serious problem.

There is a serious problem when you're trying to compare being a police officer and a taxi driver.