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Re: Some charts on fatal police killings
Because there are a lot of criminals in the USA that have little regard for the cops life, or anyone else's for that matter. It is a violent country. Comparing any less violent country to the USA is useless in regards to police shootings.
C,mon down to the hood and see for yourself. You will have a new perspective on what the cops have to deal with every single hour of every single day.
How do those figures compare to other countries? No-one would suggest that a police officer is wrong to shoot someone if they're about to be shot (and equally, I would hope that no-one suggests it's okay to kill a person for throwing a punch). The question here is not why do American cops kill people, it's why do they kill people 8 times more than Canadian cops or 18 times more than Danish cops? To answer that, we need comparative data between the countries.
Because there are a lot of criminals in the USA that have little regard for the cops life, or anyone else's for that matter. It is a violent country. Comparing any less violent country to the USA is useless in regards to police shootings.
C,mon down to the hood and see for yourself. You will have a new perspective on what the cops have to deal with every single hour of every single day.