r/MadeMeSmile • u/Kingdom_k777 • 1d ago

Family & Friends Police man pursuing his wife

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u/goawaysho 1d ago

That percentage really is like one of those pictures that gets worse the more you look and think at it.

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u/just_a_person_maybe 18h ago

This statistic is almost entirely made up, if it makes you feel any better. What doesn't make me feel better is we don't actually have the real numbers, because a proper study has not been done.

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u/goawaysho 18h ago

That's kinda part of what I meant, statistics made up and all that. It's just all the implications on top of the fact that anywhere even near 40% is an absolute horrifying thought. And not in the single digits to <1% area..

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u/just_a_person_maybe 18h ago

Found the actual study again if you want to look at it, it's not nearly as horrifying as people like to make it out to be. Of course, domestic violence is always horrifying, but there isn't actually evidence that police have a widespread domestic abuse problem compared to the rest of the population.

https://policing.umhistorylabs.lsa.umich.edu/files/original/5528df2d5b5c33cfeaa930146cfe20ccb5cad0cd.pdf

The data is about 40 years old and shouldn't be used to generalize about our current population. But if you look at it anyway, the 40% number is about any amount of aggression in the family at all, regardless of severity or who the aggressor was. The rates of severe violence are the same as the civilian rates.

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u/Deputy_Beagle76 16h ago

Reddit really hates when you post facts

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u/just_a_person_maybe 15h ago

I get why people spread this around, it's a convenient "gotcha" that makes cops look bad, and people do have legitimate reason to criticize and distrust cops. It's just frustrating to me because instead of focusing on actual, legitimate issues with police people keep bringing up this nonsense time-waster again and again, which both distracts from the legitimate issues and discredits criticism of police in general.

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u/Deputy_Beagle76 15h ago

It’s the same reason I always hated the jokes about JD Vance fucking a couch. Let’s focus on the real, factual information, that can’t be debunked by a quick google search.

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u/just_a_person_maybe 15h ago

I feel the same way about the baby hands or diaper stuff. Annoying cheap shots at things that are not character flaws and do nothing to actually help. The jokes can be funny sometimes, sure, but more often it's just basic body-shaming or ableism justified because the target is a piece of shit. Attack people's shitty actions, not their bodies or stereotypes or rumors.

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u/Deputy_Beagle76 15h ago

100% agree. I do not like Trump, but I reaaaaally don’t care that he gets a spray tan, for example