I was concerned this might be meant to show there so kind of rash of cops shooting innocent people but the data is showing that most of these cases involved armed suspects. I'm sorry, if you arm yourself and commit a crime, you've committed suicide and the cop is just helping you along.

Considering the current sociopolitical climate, and recent events, I guess I would hope you would at least put one of those (databases detailing attacks on police officers) side by side with your findings on the opposite.

A totally serious question - can you also make a database that details attacks on police officers in America as well?

Try not to overgeneralize. Can you imagine if a police force didn't exist? Anarchy.

Older Biddle fakes own death out of disgrace of lesser Biddle working at Gawker Media. /snark

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