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by craig11152 » Tue May 03, 2022 1:47 pm
I was talking to my cop daughter awhile back about policing. She is now a sargent and not out on routine road patrol anymore.
I asked her how many citizens a night she would have face to face interactions with when she was on road patrol. Her answer was probably 10-15. That's NOT just people "pulled over". That could be called out to a disturbance of some sort which may be active or may have already ended but does result in a face to face exchange with a citizen. .
For sake of discussion and my number crunching, if a car was pulled over with 3 people in it I'll call that 3 interactions since the cop hater crowd often suggests all cops are trigger happy and just "looking for an excuse" to shoot somebody.
According to BLS statistics there are about 690,000 police in America with badges, guns, handcuffs and arrest powers.
Let us suppose each of them works 5 days a week 44 weeks a year (a generous 8 weeks vacation)
That would be 220 days of "hunting citizens" per cop. Times that by 690,000 cops and we get 151,800,000 police hunting days a year.
If we use my daughters 10 per night interactions that would be 1,518,000,000 (1.5 billion) opportunities to kill a citizen.
Even at half that we are looking at 759,000,000 face to face cop/citizen encounters a year.
Yet they only manage to "bag" about 1000 of which 85% + are armed according to the Washington Post.
I have more numbers that will show cops are about 15 times more likely to be killed by a citizen than the other way around.
I no longer directly engage trolls