{"id":16410,"date":"2012-08-10T14:56:32","date_gmt":"2012-08-10T19:56:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=16410"},"modified":"2012-08-10T14:56:32","modified_gmt":"2012-08-10T19:56:32","slug":"whos-more-dangerous-to-a-random-american-citizen-terrorists-or-police-officers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2012\/08\/10\/whos-more-dangerous-to-a-random-american-citizen-terrorists-or-police-officers\/","title":{"rendered":"Who&#8217;s more dangerous to a random American citizen, terrorists or police officers?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cato-at-liberty.org\/youre-eight-times-more-likely-to-be-killed-by-a-police-officer-than-a-terrorist\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jim Harper<\/a> at the <em>Cato@Liberty<\/em> blog, you&#8217;re eight times more likely to be shot by the police than killed by a terrorist:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It got a lot of attention this morning when I tweeted, \u201cYou\u2019re Eight Times More Likely to be Killed by a Police Officer than a Terrorist.\u201d It\u2019s been quickly retweeted dozens of times, indicating that the idea is interesting to many people. So let\u2019s discuss it in more than 140 characters.<\/p>\n<p>In case it needs saying: Police officers are unlike terrorists in almost all respects. Crucially, the goal of the former, in their vastest majority, is to have a stable, peaceful, safe, law-abiding society, which is a goal we all share. The goal of the latter is \u2026 well, it\u2019s complicated. I\u2019ve cited my favorite expert on that, Audrey Kurth Cronin, here and here and here. Needless to say, the goal of terrorists is not that peaceful, safe, stable society.<\/p>\n<p>I picked up the statistic from a blog post called: \u201cFear of Terror Makes People Stupid,\u201d which in turn cites the National Safety Council for this and lots of other numbers reflecting likelihoods of dying from various causes. So dispute the number(s) with them, if you care to.<\/p>\n<p>I take it as a given that your mileage may vary. If you dwell in the suburbs or a rural area, and especially if you\u2019re wealthy, white, and well-spoken, your likelihood of death from these two sources probably converges somewhat (at very close to zero).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Jim Harper at the Cato@Liberty blog, you&#8217;re eight times more likely to be shot by the police than killed by a terrorist: It got a lot of attention this morning when I tweeted, \u201cYou\u2019re Eight Times More Likely to be Killed by a Police Officer than a Terrorist.\u201d It\u2019s been quickly retweeted dozens [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,13],"tags":[98,290,257,310],"class_list":["post-16410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-usa","tag-police","tag-statistics","tag-terrorism","tag-twitter"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-4gG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16410"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16411,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16410\/revisions\/16411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}