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Topic	5 Police officers told to leave Starbucks because they made people uncomfortable
s0nicfan 07/06/19 12:43:15 PM #70:	ZeroKelvin posted... s0nicfan posted... ZeroKelvin posted... The Admiral posted... Glad to see so these anti-police movements have indoctrinated people with feelings of paranoia. Kudos, you've surely made society better. I mean its an undeniable fact that youre at least an order of magnitude more likely to get shot if a police officer is in your presence, whether youre breaking the law or not - and ESPECIALLY if youre a minority. The odds of being shot by a cop is something like 0.08%. The odds of being shot by a cop while black while holding a gun is only about 3%. The actual statistics don't match these beliefs. You clearly didnt comprehend what I said. Just because your odds of getting shot are still pretty low around a cop doesnt mean that the increase from extremely unlikely to just unlikely isnt a significant one. Its entirely understandable if someone doesnt want to bear that risk unnecessarily. No, I get what you're saying. It's also nonsense because an order of magnitude over effectively zero is still almost zero. You're either showing a fundamental lack of understanding of probability, or you assume that the odds of being shot in the first place are much higher than they actually are. Edit: and to be clear, that point zero eight percent is the odds of being shot by a cop in an official police encounter. If you include every instance of a cop being in the same room, the number gets much much smaller. --- "History Is Much Like An Endless Waltz. The Three Beats Of War, Peace And Revolution Continue On Forever." - Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz <cite>s0nicfan posted [p:924320236] in 5 Police o... [t:77844285]...</cite> <quote><cite>ZeroKelvin posted...</cite> <quote><cite>s0nicfan posted...</cite> <quote><cite>ZeroKelvin posted...</cite> <quote><cite>The Admiral posted...</cite> <quote>Glad to see so these anti-police movements have indoctrinated people with feelings of paranoia. Kudos, you've surely made society better.</quote> I mean its an undeniable fact that youre at least an order of magnitude more likely to get shot if a police officer is in your presence, whether youre breaking the law or not - and ESPECIALLY if youre a minority.</quote> The odds of being shot by a cop is something like 0.08%. The odds of being shot by a cop while black while holding a gun is only about 3%. The actual statistics don't match these beliefs.</quote> You clearly didnt comprehend what I said. Just because your odds of getting shot are still pretty low around a cop doesnt mean that the increase from extremely unlikely to just unlikely isnt a significant one. Its entirely understandable if someone doesnt want to bear that risk unnecessarily.</quote> No, I get what you're saying. It's also nonsense because an order of magnitude over effectively zero is still almost zero. You're either showing a fundamental lack of understanding of probability, or you assume that the odds of being shot in the first place are much higher than they actually are. Edit: and to be clear, that point zero eight percent is the odds of being shot by a cop in an official police encounter. If you include every instance of a cop being in the same room, the number gets much much smaller. --- "History Is Much Like An Endless Waltz. The Three Beats Of War, Peace And Revolution Continue On Forever." - Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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