https://www.nationalpriorities.org/cost-of/war/
This has a “live counter” constantly incrementing which shows the total cost of the “global war on terror”.
This has a “live counter” constantly incrementing which shows the total cost of the “global war on terror”.
One of Bin Laden's goals was to foment distrust of America around the world. He succeeded.
The undermining of core liberties, the sullying of legal foundations to support the "war on terror", the vast increase in monitoring and other totalitarian state system, further radicalization of the right wing and division in the US, that was alllll gravy.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jan/06/us-police-ki...
In the last 25 years American police have killed more Americans than terrorists have.
More American lives would be saved by putting resources towards getting the police under control than by more spending on the nebulous war on terror.
But I guess that’s not really what you’re arguing here, you’re saying “black men being killed by police at a rate 2.5 times higher than white men, but people think it’s worse than that,” and “people are making too much noise about black men being killed by police at a rate 2.5 times higher than white men, and they really ought to cut it out.”
I disagree with this viewpoint completely.
> Additionally, the rate of fatal police shootings among Black Americans was much higher than that for any other ethnicity, standing at 5.9 fatal shootings per million of the population per year between 2015 and January 2023.
I guess if we're going to unpack that, it's also worth noting that about 60% of the population of America is considered white and about 12% of the population in America is black, according to https://usafacts.org/data/topics/people-society/population-a...
Across the various years reported on the link you shared 46% of people shot to death by police were white, 22% were black. While that's more dead white people than dead black people, it's also disproportionate to the population.
While you're pondering what deaths we pay attention to, consider all the ways alcohol kills people, and how preventable that is, since we're just throwing things out there.
Just saying it's not worth the outrage we've seen. Anyway we're ot.
That's a misleading way to use the term "rate". If you adjust for relative population size, the rate at which police shoot black people in the USA is disproportionately higher (over 2.5 times) than the rate at which they shoot white people.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/investigations/polic...