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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is why the police need to be abolished.

Not retrained. Not reimagined. Not defunded.

ABOLISHED. [/quote]

We need a reformation. But seriously, you were just bashed in the head by a mugger, who do you call?[/quote]

NP:  For me, that has been a terrifying decision: knowing that both my best option for getting help also has a very high risk of putting me in even more danger — in ways that I will absolutely unable to control.

I say this as someone who has worked directly with police officers in community oriented programs. I have had LEO friends and even a family member. But I also have had some frightening encounters with LEO. So, yeah, I would call the police, but I would do so knowing that I could be inviting someone way more terrifying into my life than the mugger who, at least in your example, didn’t shoot to kill.

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You know that you have much higher risk of being killed by someone other than a police officer, right?   For a Black man, the lifetime risk is 1 in 1,000.    0.1%   That's double the risk to all men, which is 0.05%, and that needs to be addressed.  We absolutely have to make policing safer.  But I worry that we have skewed the public perception of just how risky an encounter with a police officer really is.    People are changing policy based on emotion and not data.

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Statistics are nice and all, but an issue that you’re not looking at is the ongoing stress of knowing that officer friendly might kill you. Might. That’s an ever-present possibility when I’m going about my day. So yeah, my emotions count, and will indeed drive my opinions regarding policy.

I get that this might not be your personal experience, or even your entire community’s experience. It doesn’t help the situation when you dismiss very real, ongoing concerns.  You also likely have no idea how many encounters I have had with police or armed private security guards — at work, or just trying to live my life in peace. What for some people is just a safe presence hovering in the background, for others is an ever-present source of stress — because I never know which one of those encounters might put me in that moment of risk.

When I woke up years ago, in NYC, to a knock on the door, and saw a young, white, cop clutching his gun, my first thought really was not: “Well, I’m female, so I have less than 1% of having this turn out badly.”

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/oath-keepers-law-enforcement-60-minutes_n_607d21c9e4b0deb3d5b63067
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