Clarification:
Homicide is any case in which a human is killed by another human
Murder is an intentional homicide that is illegal.
There’s also a variety of other terms for unintentional homicide, certain categories of legal homicide, etc,
In short: all murders are homicides, but not all homicides are murders.
This is the result of a day long armed standoff on North Island, New Zealand:
Police officer Warwick Morehu came out from behind his desk as an area commander to bring the Kawerau siege to a peaceful end, but he says the four officers who were shot are the real heroes.
Kawerau is an area of high unemployment (the mill is running way under capacity, lots of layoffs), low socio-economic indices and poor health with a high Maori population (they go together, sadly), and high gang membership. And yet, despite putting four cops in hospital —one seriously injured— shooter Rhys Warren appeared in court today with no extra ventilation holes …
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Psssh, if you want a measure of diversity you need something besides language in the US. Over 80% speak only english, and all but 13 million speak english “well or very well”.
So putting aside that different languages is a poor metric for shooting people, are you contending that 4% of teh population not speaking the de facto official language is such a challenge for police that tehy’s got to be killin em all?
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Given the greatly increased risk of police violence against people with hearing disabilities, I would say that’s the attitude of the police.
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Yes, I have the same concerns regarding my autistic child.
But bra’s assertion that diversity is… actually it isn’t clear wtf that’s going on about, particularly with language. The percentage of visible minorities is much higher than people that can’t easily respond to/in english & the demographic getting the worst of it speaks english exclusively for the most part, like most other US citizens.
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Yeah, my point, I guess, was more to follow along with your wtf reasoning. I mean, American cops beat on people and shoot people a lot more than other cops do. They do it because of skin colour, they do it because of disabilities, they do it because of autism, and probably they’ve done it because someone didn’t know English well enough to follow their instructions (or because someone didn’t know English and they just didn’t like that). I can think of several factors that would make us think that American cops ought to be more ready to shoot people (the presumption that everyone has a gun being the leading one). But diversity isn’t one of them unless the point is that cops just can’t help but be violently prejudiced.
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