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Homicides and shootings are way up, but police involved shootings by contrast are way down.

Cop shooting unarmed civilian gets a lot of play in the media, but that describes a small percentage of police involved shootings.

That is, police behavior escalates individual situations into shootings which otherwise, with better training, could have ended peacefully.

You are saying that, if it weren't for the police, there would be no killings and shootings.

Instead, because they are not trained and motivated, they often create the situations which result in shootings.

Those numbers are total police officer deaths across all causes, not just shootings, which was what the parent was talking about.

And it turns out that hostage situations in police shootings are indeed pretty damned rare.

Comments like that nauseating naiveté masquerading as enlightenment, not constructive solutions to police shootings.

Around 50 per year die due to shootings, according to data from the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund (www.nleomf.org) for 2003-2014.

These shootings took place in big cities, suburban areas, towns, and in rural areas.

The people who did the shootings are sociopaths that lack empathy and compassion.

The officer involved shootings of unarmed people are consistently swept under the rug.

If "pride" means doing childish things like the slowdown in New York last year, or apparently not investigating drive by shootings in Baltimore because the protesters hurt their feelings, then that pride needs to be ruthlessly rooted out and destroyed.

From the article you link to: "Overall, blacks were killed at three times the rate of whites or other minorities when adjusting by the population of the census tracts where the shootings occurred."

We're seeing the results of neglecting mental health in America now with these spree/ego shootings, where disturbed individuals either radicalize or "snap" and go kill people in malls, churches, theaters, schools, and other public places.