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How many German police officers are killed a year? In 2011 it was 69 in the US (and another 58 died in accidents).

A Google search suggest 0-2 depending on what year you pick, see bottom of:

http://www.dw.com/en/two-german-police-officers-killed-by-fl...

In most of Western Europe it's extremely rare that police officers are killed in the line of duty.

Note: most countries count the number of bullets fired by police, as well as number of times a weapon was drawn, in the US they don't officially count people killed.

One source I could find is citing 118 in 30 years.

http://m.rp-online.de/politik/studie-gewalt-gegen-polizisten...

2155 homicides of which the vast majority are likely by non-strangers, so they would not appear in the statistic the article is proposing.

The article also says that 1500 police homicides a year accounts for 8 to 10 per cent of all homicides. The corresponding figure in Germany is less than 0.3 %

German killers are smarter?

Almost certainly, but that's no bearing on this.

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