There’s often political pressures on police departments to fix unpopular statistics, and not the actual issue.
Most famously this leads Japanese departments to label difficult murder cases as suicides.
Most famously this leads Japanese departments to label difficult murder cases as suicides.
Perhaps suggesting that the Japanese need more guns to be polite wasn't the best example. Japan is already one of the most (the most?) polite society in the world - at least talking about how strangers interact.
*An armed society of rational people is a polite society. And people tend to slip in and out of a rational state depending on their emotions, pride, sobriety, etc.
Example: anthropologists believe that on the whole, more polite societies typically murder each other at a higher rate than less polite societies.
"Polite" just means "in keeping with cultural norms". If it's polite to deal with disagreements, injuries and insults by pulling a gun, that's still polite but I certainly wouldn't feel safe.
If you believe that, you've never lived in Atlanta (or Japan for that matter).