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  • duffman@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.worldI choose you, Squirtle!
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    9 months ago

    This isn’t a rebuttal, I don’t have one, but some nuance I hope is appreciated.

    I looked at the studies a while back and read some discussions on the validity of them. I’ll summarize what I recall. many people were misrepresenting them quite a bit. The people quoting this number often aim to shed cops in a bad light and will do so intentionally.

    If I recall, 40% is the domestic violence coming from either member in the household. Not just the police officer.

    Another thing was what the offers reported as violence. if I recall correctly “violence” could be defined as raising your voice to behaving violently. So I suppose that leaves room for some interpretation. But when the numbers are brought up, the claim is generally “40% of cops are wife beaters”.

    Lastly, these were studies from the 90s and the researcherd generally did their studies on a single urban police departments. So old data and not representative sample.

    I don’t trust the number at all with the data we have. The actual rate could be higher or lower, we need better data.

    My memory could also be way off.