Comment on ICEBlock climbs to the top of the App Store charts after officials slam it
natecox@programming.dev 1 week agoI loathe and despise using percentages like this.
500% sounds super scary, but is meaningless without providing the baseline. If there was only one instance before and now there’s 5 it isn’t a significant increase but 500% sure sounds scary.
tabular@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Worse still it’s not even clear what is being discussed. It implied “violence” but that is a wide range from just pushing to serious shooting.
% can also be misleading when a scale is arbitrary. A temperature increase measured in Fahrenheit will be a rather different % when converted to Kelvin.
Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
ICE also keep getting caught on camera lying about being threatened before they start beating some innocent
Mamdani_Da_Savior@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Sadly I haven’t heard of any ICE officers getting shot in the line of duty.
floofloof@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
We all know that cops will accuse you of assaulting them if you so much as shrug while being arrested. I’d say that makes their statistics meaningless without specific details and proof.