Comment by tomnipotent | Hacker News Reader

Comment by tomnipotent | Hacker News Reader

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This is such a bullshit argument, "Why, only a small percentage of police interactions end with a shooting, and most of them are armed!" And you link to a conservatives opinion piece, which isn't biased at all.

US police kill 33.5 people per 10M, which is nearly 3x our closest neighbor (who has imported our policing strategies, unfortunately).

  Canada: 9.8
  Australia: 8.5
  Netherlands: 2.3
  New Zealand: 2.0
  Germany: 1.3
  England: 0.5
  Japan: 0.2
  Iceland: 0
  Norway: 0

There is NO excuse for how many people police murder every year, when most of the world has demonstrated it isn't necessary.

https://www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2020/06/05/policekillings/

One would expect the rate of police killings to be proportional to the homicide rate, since that is what is supposed to drive dangerous police encounters. Looking at police kills per 10M, divided by the homicide rate per 100k:

  Australia:    9.55
  Egypt:        8.45
  USA:          6.75
  Canada:       5.57
  Sweden:       5.56
  Norway:       4.04
  Netherlands:  3.90
  New Zealand:  2.86
  Germany:      1.37
  Japan:        0.77
  England:      0.42

So 41% less than the rate of Australia, 21% more than Canada and Sweden, 67% more than Norway, and 73% more than the Netherlands. Not great, but not terrible.

https://www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2020/06/05/policekillings/

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/police-ki... for countries not on prisonpolicy.org

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intention...

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