Calculating how many police calls result in an unarmed American being shot.
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So I decided to do a little math to see what the ball park is on police calls in America than result in someone being killed who was not armed. For this we will use the 2019 data for both white and black males. The combined total of both demographics was 28. (9 B 19 W)
These 28 cases also includes suspects that were acting violently or reached for something that seemed like a weapon when it was not.
(I am in no means good at this shit, i just sorta took a solid average number and I dont have exactly all the data available.)
So there are around 680,000 police working in america. I am going to assume not all of them work beat patrol due to prisons and other positions. For the number on beat I am going to say lets make it just about over half so 340,000. How many cops are on beat I dont know exactly so lets roll with this.
So with 340,000 cops, we look at the average number of calls a police officer deals with daily. It seems to range between 15-20. Sometimes 1, sometimes 30, it all depends. For this, lets stick with a solid 15. So on average, a cop deals with 15 calls a day
I am now going to throw in the average days worked a year by americans which is 260. Lets use this instead of 365 to account for days off and stuff.You can use 365 as well.
So 340,000 x 15 = 5,100,000 calls and dispatches answered daily across the entire nation. Now we take that and multiply it by 260
and we have 1,326,000,000
Roughly 1,326,000,000 dispatches are dealt with annually by cops out in the field (and this is of course assuming if the number of cops i have working the field is around the right area)
So with this number we bring back our 28. Last year, out of over a billion encounters in america over the course of a year, only 28 resulted in someone getting shot while unarmed. That is a very very low number and honestly due to sheer chaos theory it seems statistically impossible to hit 0 given the error of human nature.
Anyone better at this, please correct any mistakes.
These 28 cases also includes suspects that were acting violently or reached for something that seemed like a weapon when it was not.
(I am in no means good at this shit, i just sorta took a solid average number and I dont have exactly all the data available.)
So there are around 680,000 police working in america. I am going to assume not all of them work beat patrol due to prisons and other positions. For the number on beat I am going to say lets make it just about over half so 340,000. How many cops are on beat I dont know exactly so lets roll with this.
So with 340,000 cops, we look at the average number of calls a police officer deals with daily. It seems to range between 15-20. Sometimes 1, sometimes 30, it all depends. For this, lets stick with a solid 15. So on average, a cop deals with 15 calls a day
I am now going to throw in the average days worked a year by americans which is 260. Lets use this instead of 365 to account for days off and stuff.You can use 365 as well.
So 340,000 x 15 = 5,100,000 calls and dispatches answered daily across the entire nation. Now we take that and multiply it by 260
and we have 1,326,000,000
Roughly 1,326,000,000 dispatches are dealt with annually by cops out in the field (and this is of course assuming if the number of cops i have working the field is around the right area)
So with this number we bring back our 28. Last year, out of over a billion encounters in america over the course of a year, only 28 resulted in someone getting shot while unarmed. That is a very very low number and honestly due to sheer chaos theory it seems statistically impossible to hit 0 given the error of human nature.
Anyone better at this, please correct any mistakes.
