As far as I know, it is still true that the most common form of criminal homicide is impaired driving collisions.
Other forms of criminal homicide kill about 10,000 people a year.
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he most common demographic in violent criminal conduct is males from about 18-30, regardless of race.

If you look at offenders who kill cops, try to kill cops, or are killed by cops, the above is very common, again, regardless of race. CLASS is a better predictor than race.

There are about 18,000 violent assaults on cops each which would justify the use of lethal force in self-defense, but only about 1000 people killed by cops, and maybe 5K shot.

The odds of a young African-American man in that age being killed by cops are lower than his odds of being hit by lightning; the odds of being killed by a peer are about 25 times that.

A significant percentage of the American population is out of shape; toss in some drug impairment and the effort of a fighting a cop (and all the backup that will show up) has a good chance of leading to a fatal heart attack. A 2 minute fight is a LONG time.

That which is referred to as a "chokehold" by the ignorant is not - it has nothing to do with "choking" (strangulation - cutting off the airway) - it is a pinching of the blood vessels on the side of the neck to cause unconsciousness without out doing damage. MMA/BJJ practitioners use them all the time without issue, because their opponent is also in good shape and not trying to kill them - those are sports.

Studies show that American cops show less racial bias than average members of the population, likely because conduct, not race is the indicator of risk. Real cops just hate people in general.

Deescalation is the obligation of the suspect under both the Constitutional and criminal law. When people can be talked down, that's great, but when a conflict is imminent, time is of the essence. A 0.25 second different can be lethal to the officer and uninvolved citizens.

Force is ugly. Effective force is really ugly. That does not make it wrong.

I have met and dealt with repugnant people of every flavor - male/female; straight/gay/bi; and many racial or ethnic group. There are nasty unpleasant people who terrible things you can't conceive of. "Law and Order: SVU is sanitized compared to the real actions of offenders. If most people really knew what kind of stuff bad people do, they would go bananas and make "The Purge" look like a Disney movie.

The entire discourse is badly flawed.

BUT: those who deny racism exists, or that it has real impacts, are simply wrong. The long term and toxic effects of all kinds of stuff become multi-generational. What is not seen is that cops and the rest of the system do not create that or have any way to impact it - they are stuck with the behavior encountered.

Complex problems do not have simple answers, but placing the well-being of offenders on a par of that with victims and cops is an obscenity.

@Anders, Right?

What’s with all the polls encouraging everyone to tacitly accept racism as a fact, when it doesn’t exist, except as a vacant title to cultural condemnation?

Ignorance!