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Jun 22, 2021Liked by Jamie Paul

Hope more people can read your posts.

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One thing I want to point out is that a qualitative assessment of the situation would likely yield a lot more color to this conversation than a simple metric like death count would. For example, the Rodney King incident and the absolute failure of the criminal justice system there would not be embodied in this statistic data. We therefore could expect that a lot more of the "reality" of the police dynamic is not being captured here. I agree that there is probably a lot that is currently misunderstood, but we also shouldn't allow statistics alone to define the situation.

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Jun 5, 2021Liked by Jamie Paul

First: good article.

I would like to know how many times a Black person with a knife in the vicinity was fatally shot by police. How many times did this happen with a white person.

Later, not today, I will look for answers.

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Jun 5, 2021Liked by Jamie Paul

While for the past year I swore by the Washington Post database, I could easily see someone saying "well, those aggregating the shootings only show what's publicly available, and since police departments systematically cover up their actions, we're only getting the tip of the iceberg." I find it very reasonable for someone to think there's hundreds or even thousands of unarmed black people getting killed by police since there is that lack of transparency in many police departments which results in reported numbers below what the actual number is, which we actually do not know.

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