• isolatedscotch@discuss.tchncs.de
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    2 days ago

    this sounds awfully similar to “man or bear”

    just because police are uncompetent pigs who sometimes shoot the caller, doesn’t mean that in the majority of the cases they’ll shoot them.

    And just because you have that 1% risk of getting wrongly shot (could be lower, pulled the number out of my ass) doesn’t mean you should try to face the very real and instant threat of another person trying to stab you.

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      21 hours ago

      that 1% risk

      In the context of the US, i’d say 1% is probably the percentage of actual competent, professional, relatively unbiased cops.

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        20 hours ago

        availability bias, there are so many traffic stops, checkups, calls, etc every day that go just fine and you never hear about, and of those that end in the news, BWCs have proven police right in most cases

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      2 days ago

      and just as man vs bear, you have to be very privileged to not get why bear is the popular choice.

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          1 day ago

          that doesn’t even make sense… having a functioning brain prevents you from understanding why the bear was a popular choice?

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                21 hours ago

                you know, if you have to express your disappointment/disagreement, you don’t have to comment without expanding the conversation further. downvote and move on.

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                  20 hours ago

                  nope, a downvote doesn’t convey that you’re awfully embarrassing. which is why I didn’t downvote. also maybe take your own advice