# Are police killing non-compliant people more often than they used to or not?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-police-killing-non-compliant-people-more-often-than-they-used-to-or-not/711063>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [January 28, 2015, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-police-killing-non-compliant-people-more-often-than-they-used-to-or-not/711063 "2015-01-28T00:04:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2015, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-police-killing-non-compliant-people-more-often-than-they-used-to-or-not/711063/41 "2015-01-30T18:13:25Z")

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That’s good enough. There’s a sir in every officer. 😃😃

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**Author:** ![Novelty\_Bobble](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Novelty\_Bobble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Novelty_Bobble)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2015, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-police-killing-non-compliant-people-more-often-than-they-used-to-or-not/711063/42 "2015-01-30T19:58:51Z")

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> [@aceplace57](#):
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> I grew up saying yes sir, no sir to my elders. Still do. Although I meet fewer and fewer people that are older than me. 😉
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> I often say thank you sir/ma’am to servers at restaurants. I try to be polite in my interactions with people.

Possibly a cultural thing. My interactions with police officers would be polite but would be missing the sir/ma’am/officer. I don’t think I’d feel the need to call them anything unless I knew their name.

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**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2015, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-police-killing-non-compliant-people-more-often-than-they-used-to-or-not/711063/43 "2015-01-31T00:31:56Z")

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> [@Ranger\_Jeff](#):
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> I’m certain that there’s a higher rate\* of news reports \*about police killing non-compliant people more often than there used to be.

This. With the Internet, we have access to more reports, and many reports take on an urgency that might have warranted just a paragraph or two in the back pages of a newspaper back in the day, and that’s _if_ the editor ever heard about it.

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