One officer ≠ US police.

[jimboston]

China is irrelevant. This is a thread about US police.

Going back to your 'contradictions':

I’d rather live in a country where police killed 50 for every 10,000,000... but was otherwise relatively safe
than in a country with rampant crime, war, disease, hunger, etc... and where criminals killed way more than 50/10,000,000.

The homicide rate in the US is higher than Somalia, a country known for being basically the world's best example of a failed state wracked by al-Shabab militants, poverty, hunger and crime:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_c ... icide_rate

And before you say it, that's according to official WHO estimates of homicides in Somalia not local official data.

WHO...in the pocket of China.

[mookiemcgee]

China is irrelevant. This is a thread about US police.

Going back to your 'contradictions':

I’d rather live in a country where police killed 50 for every 10,000,000... but was otherwise relatively safe
than in a country with rampant crime, war, disease, hunger, etc... and where criminals killed way more than 50/10,000,000.

The homicide rate in the US is higher than Somalia, a country known for being basically the world's best example of a failed state wracked by al-Shabab militants, poverty, hunger and crime:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_c ... icide_rate

And before you say it, that's according to official WHO estimates of homicides in Somalia not local official data.

WHO...in the pocket of China.

Who... isn't nowadays

[mrswdk]

China is irrelevant. This is a thread about US police.

Going back to your 'contradictions':

I’d rather live in a country where police killed 50 for every 10,000,000... but was otherwise relatively safe
than in a country with rampant crime, war, disease, hunger, etc... and where criminals killed way more than 50/10,000,000.

The homicide rate in the US is higher than Somalia, a country known for being basically the world's best example of a failed state wracked by al-Shabab militants, poverty, hunger and crime:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_c ... icide_rate

And before you say it, that's according to official WHO estimates of homicides in Somalia not local official data.

WHO...in the pocket of China.

So you are saying WHO doctored Somali crime figures because they knew that one day someone would use them to unfavourably compare Somalia to the US on the internet and by extension make China look relatively good?

WHO playing 7D chess over here!!

[jimboston]

China is irrelevant. This is a thread about US police.

Going back to your 'contradictions':

I’d rather live in a country where police killed 50 for every 10,000,000... but was otherwise relatively safe
than in a country with rampant crime, war, disease, hunger, etc... and where criminals killed way more than 50/10,000,000.

The homicide rate in the US is higher than Somalia, a country known for being basically the world's best example of a failed state wracked by al-Shabab militants, poverty, hunger and crime:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_c ... icide_rate

And before you say it, that's according to official WHO estimates of homicides in Somalia not local official data.

WHO...in the pocket of China.

So you are saying WHO doctored Somali crime figures because they knew that one day someone would use them to unfavourably compare Somalia to the US on the internet and by extension make China look relatively good?

WHO playing 7D chess over here!!

Not really.

... but I don’t trust WHO figures, because they aren’t actually gathering the data. They just aggregate the data that’s provided to them by local officials or other local sources.

[mrswdk]

He said, based on the bad feeling in his stomach and the colour of the clouds that evening.

[jimboston]

He said, based on the bad feeling in his stomach and the colour of the clouds that evening.

That’s about as reliable as any info you’d get out of Somalia.

[jusplay4fun]

Is anyone surprised?

jimboston posted:

I will also say that taking that one line from his post and boiling away the rest is disingenuous.
I’s typical mrswdk playbook... truly manipulative and mean-spirited and outright false to suggest that was THE POINT of his post.