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Originally posted by Sparko View PostThat is because the police didn't hijack your car.That's what
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Originally posted by Sparko View Postwhat is your evidence for "a lot"?
The news people love a story like that and so that is what you see and read about.
Now, if the sensational is only a fraction of the non-sensational then the conclusion readily follows.
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Originally posted by Paprika View PostThere is the report on the Ferguson police department, for instance. You know that I don't buy the 'rayciss' angle but it did uncover a lot of injustices that were not related to race. And why is that?
What is your own logic? The news people love the sensational and will publish about the sensational police brutality, true or false. But there will be many where there is no photographic or video evidence available to the media, either with just the victim's word for it, or with at most a few eyewitnesses - that is hardly sensational and is unlikely to be published.
Now, if the sensational is only a fraction of the non-sensational then the conclusion readily follows.
According to FBI statistics in 2012 there were 12,196,959 arrests in the USA. That is 33,416 arrests per day. Compared to the number of news reports of bad cops (and in many of those cases the cop ended up being in the right after all) the percentage of news reports to actual reports is .0027% - even allowing for "a lot" of reports not being making the news, that still leaves an overwhelming number of arrests that are justifiable and did not result in any police brutality or other offenses.
http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr...abledatadecpdf
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Originally posted by Sparko View PostYou are just repeating yourself.
even allowing for "a lot" of reports not being making the news, that still leaves an overwhelming number of arrests that are justifiable and did not result in any police brutality or other offenses.
Please don't think binarily: I'm not saying that most arrests result in brutality or other offense, but rather that by common sense, evidence, and your own logic that the media only reports the sensational fraction we have to conclude that what is reported is only the tip of the iceberg.
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Originally posted by Paprika View PostYou asked for evidence, I pointed you to some. And I rephrased my main point because you didn't get it, instead calling it an 'argument from silence'.
That remains to be seen, doesn't it?
Please don't think binarily: I'm not saying that most arrests result in brutality or other offense, but rather that by common sense, evidence, and your own logic that the media only reports the sensational fraction we have to conclude that what is reported is only the tip of the iceberg.
Reporters routinely check the daily arrest and crime stats and if anything is even close to being about a "bad cop" it will be news. Not only that but anyone who has been brutalized by the cops would report it to the news channels. It doesn't have to be live on camera to be news.
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Originally posted by Sparko View PostBy that logic, a lot more airliners crash than are reported in the news.
Reporters routinely check the daily arrest and crime stats and if anything is even close to being about a "bad cop" it will be news.
Not only that but anyone who has been brutalized by the cops would report it to the news channels.
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Originally posted by Paprika View PostExcept that almost all airlines crashes are sensational.
Pray tell how they can infer from the number of arrests that people were or were not brutalised in the process.
Would you have evidence for that? I would tend to think that if no corroborative evidence could be produced that people would not bother since it would be one side's account against the other.
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Originally posted by Sparko View PostExcept that almost all airlines crashes are sensational.
Because if there were a large percentage, there would be alot more stories about them. How many stories per year do you see showing police misconduct? a dozen? three dozen? Compared to over 30K arrests per day. [/quote]
As I said, there needs to be evidence. Plane crashes tend to leave spectacular evidence while beatings may not or can be covered up.
They would have bruises and cuts.
Heck you read stories that are obvious fabrications by people claiming police brutality all the time.
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Originally posted by Paprika View Postso are incidents where police murder or beat up suspects
Because if there were a large percentage, there would be alot more stories about them. How many stories per year do you see showing police misconduct? a dozen? three dozen? Compared to over 30K arrests per day.
As I said, there needs to be evidence. Plane crashes tend to leave spectacular evidence while beatings may not or can be covered up.
Which don't usually show who inflicted them. And if the person is incarcerated there is time for the wounds to heal.
Fair enough. The point remains that there is a lot of brutality or corruption that is covered up (cf. the report on Ferguson), most of which wouldn't have come to light if there wasn't an investigation.
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Originally posted by Bill the Cat View PostDo you try to bait us into calling your remarks stupid? Because this looks like top grade chum here. You can't seriously think that was the point I was making. PLEASE tell me you were trying to be facetious... PLEASE??
But they STILL need to know that doing what the cop says when he says it will generally lead to peaceful interactions with the cops. The Police are not the enemy, despite how a large swath of the entire culture is trying to portray them.Learn to do right; seek justice. Defend the oppressed. Take up the cause of the fatherless; plead the case of the widow.--Isaiah 1:17
I don't think that all forms o[f] slavery are inherently immoral.--seer
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Originally posted by Zymologist View PostTo be clear, when you say "my hijacking" are you referring to an incident wherein your car was hijacked by someone else, or do you mean that you personally committed a hijacking?Be watchful, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong.
1 Corinthians 16:13
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