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There is a reality distortion field in existence now because almost every police interaction is recorded (body cams are everywhere nowadays) and the ones that go bad are put on full blast across social media and the news, despite them being somewhere on the order of 1 in 1,000,000 encounters.

Seriously, if car accidents were reported like police accidents, we probably would have been forced by confused ideologues to ban automobiles 2 years ago.




Given that they're over 100 deaths a day in the US (as of 2022), we probably should consider car accidents more than we do.

(But they pretty much do report on them consistently on local news... People won't stop driving because the social benefit is so large).




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