hirundo82 wrote:sookandy wrote:The Annoyed Man wrote:I just want to slap people like this because they tarnish all of us. You never see a news story that says "Meanwhile, CHL holders committed fewer crimes today than policemen."
That would be one interesting stat to see.
I've looked for it, but nobody seems to collect stats on conviction rates among law enforcement. I'd bet it is similar to CHLs, or to any other segment of society with a clean background. The best predictor of future criminal behavior is past criminal behavior, and neither group tends to have a history of that.
The website
Injustice Everywhere attempts to track police misconduct and produces an annual report available
here. Scroll down to the section labeled "Misconduct Per Capita", and you'll see the following:
When current data is filtered to examine only incidents that can be classified as violent crimes as specified per the US FBI/DOJ Uniform Crime Reporting standards and then compared with the 2009 FBI/DOJ UCR Crime in the United States report as a per capita general population and per capita law enforcement basis the results indicate that overall violent crime rates are not too divergent between the two population groups with a difference of only 20.1 per 100k point between the two. However, there appear to be some more significant differences at a more granular level with robbery rates for police far below those reported for the general population but sexual assault rates are significantly higher for police when compared to the general population.
His conclusion is that police commit violent crimes at essentially the same rate as the general population. We know (from Charles' posts and elsewhere) that CHL'er commit crimes at a rate far less than the general population, so it stands to reason that CHL'ers commit crimes at a rate far less than LEO's.