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2024-05-05 20:18:01 UTC - MISINFORMED_OR_POTENTIALLY_MISLEADING

Not per capita. There are 22.7M children between the age of 0 and 5 and 708k police officers in the US. Assuming the stats on the graph are real : 1200/22.7M ≈ 0.000'053 750/708k ≈ 0.001'059 Police officers are ~20x more likely to get shot and killed than 0-4 yrs olds. https://www.statista.com/statistics/457786/number-of-children-in-the-us-by-age/#:~:text=In%202022%2C%20there%20were%20about,years%20old%20in%20the%20country. https://www.statista.com/statistics/191694/number-of-law-enforcement-officers-in-the-us/#:~:text=In%202022%2C%20there%20were%20708%2C001,in%202013%20with%20626%2C942%20officers.

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• Not per capita. There are 22.7M children between the age of 0 and 5 and 708k police officers in the US. Assuming the stats on the graph are real : 1200/22.7M ≈ 0.000'053 750/708k ≈ 0.001'059 Police officers are ~20x more likely to get shot and killed than 0-4 yrs olds. https://www.statista.com/statistics/457786/number-of-children-in-the-us-by-age/#:~:text=In%202022%2C%20there%20were%20about,years%20old%20in%20the%20country. https://www.statista.com/statistics/191694/number-of-law-enforcement-officers-in-the-us/#:~:text=In%202022%2C%20there%20were%20708%2C001,in%202013%20with%20626%2C942%20officers.