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b_b · 1502 days ago · link · · parent · post: Police killings more likely in agencies that get military gear, data shows
Not to continually try to be the data police, but that graph title is bullshit, insofar as it does nothing of the sort. $1000 is not much money, certainly not enough to outfit a department with anything deadly. So maybe what the graph is really telling us is that PDs who ask for money are those that are more predisposed to being reactionary. I get that Chekhov told us long ago that if you bring a gun to act I, you better use it in act III. But the controls just aren't there to believe there's a causal link. The police can kill people pretty efficiently with hand guns...they don't need military money to buy hand guns.