alt Hacker News> Forty percent of these gang members are domestic abusers, routinely assaulting their spouses or children
Bet you can't source that. At least, in a manner that matches your point about the 1M officers in America.
How do I know? Because I know the exact study that the number is derived from that people blindly repeat, and let's just say it is not a particularly powerful analysis.
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>Because I know the exact study that the number is derived from that people blindly repeat, and let's just say it is not a particularly powerful analysis.
Because it was self reported?
Considering the number of news articles I have seen, where the police as an organization intimidate women preventing them from coming forward about domestic violence, I imagine that the number is way way way too low.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/325717460_Officer_i... It’s even worse. The entire system covers up the gang members crime. And even when convicted, it’s often for a lesser crime. There gang members walk back to the street, fully armed and ready to kill the citizens they’re legally not liable to protect.
Apparently HN hasn’t gotten their fill of humans hiding behind a piece of paper murdering other innocents, yet.