A question on so many minds is “How many Americans are killed by police?” The website killedbypolice.net is doing a good job at tracking data as far back as two years ago. While you can find details of each death on the site, I compiled the monthly numbers into an easy-to-read bar graph. 2013 May 104 deaths 2013 June […]
Many of us wonder about traffic deaths in Taiwan; statistics are difficult to find (most of what’s reported is in Chinese). One of the only decent raw resources can be found here, and it’s from 1993. So what was Taiwan like twenty years ago? A study was done of 4,329 traffic injury reports and the […]
I hear a lot of people saying Israel is justified in what it does. That they’re standing up for themselves. Americans love that rhetoric, because so many of us still think we’re Rambo Cowboys fighting for truth and justice. But here’s the reality. In 2007, for every one Israeli death there were 25 Palestinian deaths. […]
Recently, a friend of mine wrote the following on Facebook: Waking up to the horrible news of the movie theater shooting. I can’t even comprehend this. What is the solution to protect ourselves and our families? Gun control? Do we need metal detectors and TSA agents at movie theaters as well? These poor people were […]