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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For every egregious police act, can we also post every single good police act that occurred at that very same moment in time across our fifty states? Just for proportionality? I'm guessing if this is criminal--it's on video, will be investigated, and justice will be done. Will all the good police who were doing good work at the same time get commendations? Doubtful.[/quote]

But police are supposed to do good things and act appropriately. It shouldn't be newsworthy. [/quote]

Or maybe it should. Because the preponderance of police violence stories is not proportional to the scale of these actual events. If we published every good police act that occurred at the exact same moment, it might be a good thing to demonstrate the ratio. This act will be addressed if it was illegal, but all the legal behavior should be recognized as well.[/quote]

I like that you've really convinced yourself you have an excellent point here.

Most people, on most days, do not murder someone. For every story the news runs about a local murder, should they run 330 million stories about each American who made it through the day without killing someone?

Last year, there were 36.4 million safe airplane flights and only 81 plane crashes. Should the news only cover the plane crashes if it also runs 36.4 million stories about people who had uneventful flights?

I watched a news piece last week about someone who won a have lottery jackpot. Shouldn't they have also presented everyone who didn't win the lottery?

Planes sometimes crashing is a problem. And police officers sometimes shooting unarmed people who are holding their arms in the air and begging not to be shot is a problem. This would be true whether all cops did this or only one in a billion cops did this. Ratios have nothing to do with its newsworthiness.

P.S. I am SURE you also regularly rant after a terrorist attack that there isn't enough media coverage of Muslims not blowing stuff up. Because you're intellectually consistent like that.[/quote]

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