(This is meant to be a fun educational rather than a boring droll of numbers, please take it as such and not personal)
For everyone's general knowledge: Numbers
Teachy TV Time!
Take a look at this!
We have roughly 1M police officers within the United States right now! As the study above was made in 2010, we'll chop the numbers to 800k for ease of use purposes! This poster shows that a lot of police and law enforcement officers are nasty, right? So, let's see just how many cops really are bad. So, who's bad (besides Michael)?
Math time!
So, 800,000 officers . . .
and we'll round up for 6,000 reports.
We're looking for the
percentage of officers that had reports filed against them. Let's just assume that all reports are against a
different officer in this case (even though that's not likely true)
Here we go (let's see if I can remember this)
100%/x%=800,000/6,000
(100/x)*x=(800,000/6,000)*x
100=133.33*x
100/133.33=x
0.75=x
x=0.75%
Whoa. Isn't that interesting? Out of all officers in the United States, only .75% had reports filed against them!
This is fun, isn't it! Let's continue!
So, out of 6000 reports, 33% were charged! Hmm. Let's do some more math here. . .
6,000/x=100/33
(6,000/x)*x=(100/33)*x
6,000=3.030*x
6,000/3.030=x
1980=x
x=1980
Whoa! So out of all 6,000 of those reports 1,980 officers were actually charged! This is, assuming that they're all different officers. Hmm. What else does this report say? Oh wow! A whopping 64% conviction rate against the officers that were actually charged with an indictment! Ouch! Let's find out more!
So of 1,980 officers . . . take that here . . . carry the one . . . Ah! So I'm looking for 64% of 1,980! This is going to be tough!
1980/x=100/64
(1980/x)*x=(100/64)*x
1980=1.5625*x
1980/1.5625=x
1267.2=x
x=1267.2
Hm. A lot bigger than I had thought! A whopping 1,267 officers were convicted out of 6,000 reports! Wait! I don't think we're done just yet! Let's go back to the original number of officers! There were 800,000 officers total, remember? So what percentage is 1,267 out of 800,000? Hm. Let's find out!
100%/x%=800,000/1267
(100/x)*x=(800,000/1267)*x
100=631.4127*x
100/631.4127=x
0.158375=x
x=0.158375
Whoa! Only .15%? Is that right? No. Wait, we aren't finished just yet. So, out of 800,000 police officers. . . .15% and *mumble mumble*
800000/x=100/0.15
(800000/x)*x=(100/0.15)*x
800000=666.66*x
800000/666.66=x
1200=x
x=1200
Wow! Finally! We're all done and we found out 1,200 police officers out of 800,000 used brutality! So that's what they meant by rampant police brutality! Wait . . . the study only says
misconduct, not brutality! Hm. Let's just see what that means . . . WHAT? I have to do
more math? Make it stop Pikachu! Okay, let's see here. . . I must have skipped a step! No matter, as these are just numbers, we can't be bothered! The percentages don't change
that much do they? Let's see. So 23.3% of these misconducts were excessive force. Okay! So:
1200/x=100/23.3
(1200/x)*x=(100/23.3)*x
1200=4.2918454935622*x
1200/4.2918454935622=x
279.6=x
x=279.6
Hm. So only 280 officers were convicted of excessive force or there abouts? Hm. Let's see. . . whoa! A Whopping 13% of those excessive force cases resulted in death? Isn't that just lovely, right Pikachu? (Teachy TV, right?)
So, 13% out of 280 . . .
280/x=100/13
(280/x)*x=(100/13)*x
280=7.69*x
280/7.69=x
36.4=x
x=36.4
Ohohoho! I think we're finally done! So, out of all that, we're left with roughly 36 officers that actually wrongfully killed someone! Hm. Let's just try one more thing . . .
100%/x%=800000/34
(100/x)*x=(800000/34)*x
100=23529.41*x
100/23529.41=x
0.00425=x
x=0.00425
IRK! Lots of small numbers! So, out of all the police officers in the United States during that time, only .0042% actually used force in such a way that was
unlawful! Pretty strange, don't you think? What do you guys think? 'Til Next time! Teachy TV, for all your informational needs!