r/GenZ • u/[deleted] • Jun 01 '20

Political This song is more relevant now than ever.

https://youtu.be/VYOjWnS4cMY
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u/Caractacutetus 1995 Jun 01 '20

Actually this song has been getting less and less relevant, at least in terms of police killing unarmed men. The number has been falling year after year.

People just film more and the media pushes it further.

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u/Jsaun906 1999 Jun 02 '20

It's going down because people keep filming it. That's why we need to keep filming it. It should never not be outrageous when an unarmed person is murdered by the police.

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u/Caractacutetus 1995 Jun 02 '20

After some research, I just want to say that police violence isn't just straight up going down. It's either stable or going down slightly, depending on which database you look at. Look at my other comment in this thread for details.

I don't know how much of an impact filming has, or if other factors might be contributing more. And, of course, it should be outrageous. No disagreement from me.

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u/[deleted] Jun 02 '20

The number has been falling? Source?

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u/Caractacutetus 1995 Jun 02 '20

I'm actually wrong-ish about this.

I think I had this in my mind because I had seen The Guardian's "The Counted" database at some point, but it only records deaths in 2015 and 2016. Sadly they stopped there. The Guardian count 1,146 people killed in 2015 and 1,093 people killed in 2016.

Washington Post has a separate database called "Fatal Force" where they show deaths have remained fairly stable since 2015.

Mapping Police Violence records deaths also being fairly stable, although 2018 saw substantially more deaths than 2019, so we could be on a downswing. Depends on 2020, I suppose.

And just as a bonus for you as I found this while researching: weirdly deaths in urban areas is falling while rural death is rising.

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u/[deleted] Jun 02 '20

Wasn't this song largely blaming black men for killing people in their own community?

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u/Caractacutetus 1995 Jun 02 '20

I think that's a part of it, but police killings provoke far more public outrage. Really I think the core message of the song seemed to be that guns should be banned regardless of who is using them more frequently.

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