I hate to reinstate this but I'm not fan of police. I wouldn't be flying the blue lives matter flag but all of this police vilification makes our society less safe.
Police use force in less than 1% of arrests, fire weapons even less, says new book | Daily Mail Online
It runs counter to dozens of studies that have found that black people disproportionately suffer from police stops, searches and deaths in custody. A recent opinion poll found that 89 percent of Americans wanted police reforms.
Mangual, however, says he has crunched the numbers and found a ‘glaring incongruity between what the harshest critics of law enforcement were saying — about imprisonment and police use of force — and reality’.
‘A sober examination of the data on who goes to prison reveals that lengthy terms of incarceration are reserved for chronic, violent offenders who’ve already been given multiple “second chances”,’ said Mangual.
Crime researcher Rafael Mangual says police use force and fire weapons during arrests far less than is appreciated, and that the justice system works well at locking up persistent and violent offenders