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Over the last two weeks, reports of extrajudicial police killings of civilians in Colombia have been widespread. Remarkably, several of these incidents have may have been captured on video. I analyze several in this post.
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What a bench.
While my biggest achievement during quarantine was rediscovering hand tool woodworking (including making the Spanish colonial-inspired workbench pictured above), I also made incremental progress on removing CV fluff by producing more substantial academic content.
Read MoreConsideración breve de trauma ocular con los perdigones de “goma” utilizados por Carabineros, y una discusión de estándares de anteojos de seguridad.
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Nacho Saavedra, a defensive midfielder for Club Deportivo Universidad Católica, covers his eye in recognition of Chileans who have partially or fully lost vision due to police action in the current protests.
Brief ballistic examination of potential ocular trauma with range with so-called “rubber shot” («perdigones de goma») used to suppress unrest in Chile, as well as a discussion of safety eyewear standards.
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Carabinero with a shotgun (source). It is not clear to me how accurate a shotgun deployed in this manner might be, but suffice to say this is not the recommended method of employ (with its stock folded).
I use a simple Monte Carlo model of my own construction and basic statistics to demonstrate that it is almost certain that the Carabineros have been shooting less-than-lethal rounds at the faces of civilians in Chile.
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Photo credit: Migrar Photo
One of the characteristic features of the last month in Chile has been the sheer volume of police gunfire on the streets. Simple physics and a rudimentary ballistic analysis shows that it’s highly unlikely that “rubber shot” used to disperse crowds is simply that.
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