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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Statistics in terms of police misconduct mean little without something with which to compare them with. The first thing a police officer or anti-police accountability debater will tell you in a debate is that officers who are caught doing something wrong are a very small percentage of the police population in the US.  Well, they are right, 28 out of 800,000 is a small percentage and nowhere near a majority of the police population in the US. In fact, our statistics indicate that just under 1000 per 100,000 police officers per year are involved in credible reports of police misconduct. Yes, that translates to under 1% of all police officers.

But, as I said, that number means little unless you have a comparison point. None better exist than the numbers Americans use to guage how bad crime is in the US, the FBI/DOJ Uniform Crime Reporting statistics or UCR for short. The UCR tells us what portion of the US population is involved in alleged reported criminal acts per year, just like the National Police Misconduct Statistics and Reporting Project Police Misconduct Statistical Report or NPMSRP for short statistics tell us how many officers are involved in alleged reported acts of police misconduct per year.

[img]http://www.policemisconduct.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/12mo-crime-rate-comparison.png[/img]

As you can see, when we examine violent crime statistics, law enforcement officers appear to be involved in violent crime in a comparable rate with the general population. 432 officers out of every 100,000 compared to 454.5 people out of every 100,000.  So, roughly 0.43% vs 0.45%.  Both seem like small numbers, don’t they? Yet most people would probably tell you that they are worried about the rate of violent crimes but not police misconduct even though both occur at similar rates statistically.

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Needs to be reiterated for the stubborn and stupid.[/quote]

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