Astounding numbers

• O-Trap

  

  48
  
  The number of replies this thread should have stopped at.
• Spock

  

  89% of most statistics are made up. Including this one
• thavoice

  Here's a staggering number.....230 plus dead by a truck bomb in somalia today carried out at a hotel coordinated by al shabaab
• salto

  

  
• Spock

  

  salto;1877491 wrote:

  cars and guns. 2 things that are evil and should be gotten rid of. Oh wait, they are inanimate objects that dont do anything without a person behind them.
• O-Trap

  

  	Households with Firearms (%)	Individuals per thousand victimized by violent crime
  Rural	55.9	27.8
  Suburban	24.2	37.2
  Urban	17.1	47.6

• BRF

  

  17
  
  The number of arrows in the bundle on the Great Seal of Ohio signifying Ohio being the 17th state.
• QuakerOats

  https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/susan-jones/118-law-enforcement-officers-killeddied-line-duty-2016-37-2015
  
  
  (CNSNews.com) - 118 law enforcement officers died in the line of duty last year in the United States, the FBI reported on Monday.
  That was up 37 percent from the 86 law enforcement officers who died in the line of duty in 2015.
  In 2016, 66 of the 118 deaths of law enforcement officers were felonious and 52 were accidental. In 2015, 41 of the 86 deaths of law enforcement officers were felonious and 45 were accidental.
  Another 57,180 officers were assaulted in the line of duty in 2016, and 16,535 (or about 29 percent) sustained injuries from that assault.
  "All of these numbers increased from figures reported in 2015, when 45 officers died accidentally and 41 were feloniously killed in the line of duty," the FBI said. A total of 50,212 assaults were reported in 2015.
• GOONx19

  

  How the hell do 50 otherwise healthy individuals die “accidentally”?
• gut

  GOONx19;1877591 wrote:How the hell do 50 otherwise healthy individuals die “accidentally”?

  I was wondering that, too. Although I think a good number have died in traffic accidents (and probably a few more hit by oncoming traffic). Probably a couple of falls in there, too.
  
  The number I question and would like to know more about is the 57k assaults and 16k injuries from that - if true, really an astounding number. 16k+ officers assaulted and injured certainly gives some perspective to the 150-200 or so "bad" shootings.
  
  But you still have to frame everything in the proper context - 10M arrests a year and 800k cops. So roughly 1 in 200 arrests involves assaulting a police officer, and 1 in 700 results in an injury to the cop. Even a cop in a rough neighborhood probably doesn't get assaulted more than a handful of times in their career (and many officers nationwide probably never do). When you think of it that way, it's hard to justify the quick use and escalation of force.