If your guess includes the rather large amount of alcohol I was drinking last night, you would be right.
Around the 10th beer, I’m pretty sure I forgot my original point and lost interest so will drop this now as I can’t remember everything I was saying and really have better things to do than spend time re-reading it…

Again, fucking nuance. Sick of saying this now. kids is a pretty broad stat. Are we talking five year olds or sixteen year olds armed with guns and shooting first?
You can easily cherry pick stats to garner outrage. I just want more detail, more info and more than just a, “Omg! so many kids killed by the police! oh my…

Not at all. I want a clear definition of what this writer constitutes a ‘kid’ because there is a great deal of difference between an innocent kid on his way to school and a gang banger or dealer who is a kid by age, but much older by life experience.
If cops are shooting ‘kids’ (oh the horrror) but those ‘kids’ are…

because I’m not writing an article and presenting it to a world from a platform with a wide base... if I were, then sure, I would look up those stats and make them dance to my own tune.
As it is, I am visiting this site for news articles and feeling more than a little underwhelmed about the work of people who keep…

Sigh. I’m tired and a little drunk, but will try. It matters because she is presenting it as though the police are out there straight up murdering kids. She is taking numbers that support her point and spinning them to make it look as though there is some serious epidemic when they are, in fact, fairly few and far…

No, but context matters. How many cops shot by people they stopped? how many people did they consider to have a toy gun which turned out to be real? How many turned up to a simple traffic stop only to have to dive out of the line of fire?
There are a lot of stats she ignores in favour of the cherry picked ones that…

A great deal, which any one should be able to see. She focuses on cops killing kids, but glosses over all the kids killed by gang members, family members etc.
She cherry picks stats to make her point and ignores that which doesnt support it.

I really don’t care. I do care about unbiased accuracy. Weird I know.

So it would seem. A lot of hate comes my way for asking for some basic level analysis, but, what can you do?

Sure. Pay me.
No? Then why should I do it? This writer was paid for her work and my time and effort is no less valuable. If you want to send me some cash, I will do the work for you. Until then, stop being lazy and look the information up yourself. Don’t rely on biased hacks to spoon feed you everything.

Right, including by law enforcement. How many are killed by other youths with guns? there is a huge number of deaths through gang violence alone that will inflate the stats.
This writer has cherry picked the ones that support her point.

No. Claiming a toy gun means they are armed is ridiculous, but all we have here is the writers biased take. If we go, look and analyize the data as best we can ourselves, we might find that she has cherry picked stats that help her reach her point.
Putting up all of the information in an un-biased way would have given…

Someone has linked them. My point is though that a writer being paid for an article should be the one showing them. We shouldn’t have to search for them because it shows her bias here.

I shall take a look at them later, at the moment wading through a lot of posts being unpleasant towards me lol.

Yes, I get that any police shooting should be scrutinized and if found to be not warranted, the officer should be sanctioned in whatever manner is appropriate.
But... we need to see the full stats and not a semi-hysterical outrage piece where stats are skewed to make a point.
The writer of this outrage piece should…

Well that is one, weird, way of interpreting what I said. Good for you though. Comprehension is hard, I know. One day you’ll get it right. Go you!

So where are your stats to provide a counter argument? All I see here is outrage and that’s not really constructive. If you disagree with how they read the stats, how about writing an article with your own detailed analysis and let’s take a look at them.
I am sure they would be enlightening.

Okay? Is that supposed to mean something? If so, I have no idea what.

To be fair, looking at how the young folk speak online these days, calling anyone articulate and saying they speak well is a compliment. We had one apprentice write a report entirely in text speak. We did not say he was articulate or well spoken.

Yeah, I get it, but it is just really weird to consider. If anything, this actually helps me understand the racial issues you guys have. I mean before, as an outsider looking in, I couldn’t quite ‘get’ it. I could look around at my own fairly diverse area and laugh at the EDL or whoever turning up for a rally to show…