How Does (Watch) Police Shooting Statistics Are EXTREMELY Misleading Work?

It’s like counting only the candies that fell on the floor and ignoring the ones still in the bag, you get a wrong picture of what really happened.

Imagine there's a police shooting every day, but sometimes it gets reported, and sometimes it doesn’t. If you only look at the ones that were reported, you might think police shootings happen all the time, or maybe not so much, depending on which ones got noticed.

Think of a scale in the kitchen that only weighs the cookies you drop on it, but not the ones still in the jar. That scale would give you funny numbers, right? Same with police shooting statistics: if some shootings are missed or reported too late, they look like they never happened.

Also, sometimes people count how many shootings happen, but not how many people were shot, it’s like counting how many candies got broken instead of how many fell on the floor. That changes the whole story!

So, when you see a number that says "only 10 shootings this month," it might actually be much higher if some weren’t counted or reported, just like your kitchen scale might say "light" even though there are plenty of cookies still in the jar.