1) Police officers make people feel unsafe. a) "I never want to go near cops," said Tameeka, a teenager living in the Bronx. b) "Imagine the horror in our streets if we didn't have cops. People would be terrified," said Trump. c) 86% of Republicans feel they can trust the police. d) Only about 25% of African Americans report not trusting the police. 2) Police officers fail to stop crime.  a) DECLINING NUMBERS OF COPS NATIONWIDE WORRY BIG CITY OFFICIALS, BUT EXPERTS SAY THERE IS LITTLE EVIDENCE THAT MORE COPS EQUALS LESS CRIME. b) It’s simply that with more officers around, fewer people commit crimes in the first place. c) One of the central predictions of Becker's theory is that crime will decrease when police presence increases. A basic problem with this prediction is that it has largely failed to find empirical support. d) Only 2% of crimes resolve in an arrest. 3) Cops only target Black men.  a) Over the life course, about 1 in every 1,000 black men can expect to be killed by police. b) we lack basic estimates of the prevalence of police-involved deaths, largely due to the absence of definitive official data. Journalists have stepped into this void and initiated a series of systematic efforts to track police-involved killings. c) Black women and men and American Indian and Alaska Native women and men are significantly more likely than white women and men to be killed by police. d) Black men are about 2.5 times more likely to be killed by police over the life course than are white men 4) Most cops are violent and dangerous. a) "Many officers will go their entire career without shooting — sometimes without pulling their gun out at all," said Peter Scharf, a criminologist and professor in the School of Public Health at Louisiana State University and co-author of The Badge and the Bullet: Police Use of Deadly Force. "It's rare." b) More than two dozen officers have racked up citizen complaints or use-of-force incidents c) Nineteen of the officers involved in deadly shootings were rookies, with less than a year on the force d) At least six officers had troubled pasts before being hired onto police departments, including drug use and domestic violence. 5) There are no circumstances where it is ok for the police to shoot somebody.  a) People with untreated mental illness are 16 times more likely to be killed during a police encounter than other civilians approached or stopped by law enforcement b) Kurt Reinhold, a, 42-year-old homeless Black man, was gunned down by Orange County Sheriff’s Deputies on Sept. 23. c) Omar Saddiqui Mateen, 29, opens fire inside Pulse, a gay nightclub, in Orlando. At least 49 people are killed and more than 50 are injured. Police shoot and kill Mateen during an operation to free hostages officials say he was holding at the club. d) Police killed 41 unarmed Americans in 2020

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