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OK well I suppose then it is fair to say that on average 150 police a year die in the line of duty from criminal action, yet in the UK, here is a list of all th

OK well I suppose then it is fair to say that on average 150 police a year die in the line of duty from criminal action, yet in the UK, here is a list of all that have died since 1900: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_British_police_officers_killed_in_the_line_of_duty https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_British_police_officer... The police in the US face many more people with guns, so comparing it with the UK is absurd. I have lived in the UK it is a lot different there in regards to violent crime, and gun crime is basically unheard of. To put this in perspective there are more deaths per year in the NYPD than all of UK, Iceland, Japan and other countries that are used to make non equivalent comparisons. The police do indeed do wrong things sometimes, but to imply that the higher rate of citizen killings here is due to some police malfeasance or conspiracy is indeed tinfoil hat.

dave2000 11y ago
You can't explain away the massive discrepancy between the UK and the US simply by saying it's because the police face more people with guns, I'm afraid, although clearly the ridiculous US gun laws are implicated. There's simply no willingness to take the generally speaking white-cop-on-black-guy murder seriously; it doesn't require a conspiracy to explain it; the transition from slavery to lynching to today just hasn't been handled very well and therefore it's essentially still happening in slow motion. Sort that out and you'll address much of the problem. The other side of the coin is the whole US military industrial thing; the massive profits in being a provider to the military for their little ongoing adventures in muslim countries, and the sideline in providing much of the kit to police forces. This will only get worse as the divide between rich and poor continues to grow. There's no need for conspiracy theories to explain what's happening; no need to look for secret meetings; this is all out in the open and has been for decades.

dave2000 11y ago

You can't explain away the massive discrepancy between the UK and the US simply by saying it's because the police face more people with guns, I'm afraid, although clearly the ridiculous US gun laws are implicated. There's simply no willingness to take the generally speaking white-cop-on-black-guy murder seriously; it doesn't require a conspiracy to explain it; the transition from slavery to lynching to today just hasn't been handled very well and therefore it's essentially still happening in slow motion. Sort that out and you'll address much of the problem. The other side of the coin is the whole US military industrial thing; the massive profits in being a provider to the military for their little ongoing adventures in muslim countries, and the sideline in providing much of the kit to police forces. This will only get worse as the divide between rich and poor continues to grow. There's no need for conspiracy theories to explain what's happening; no need to look for secret meetings; this is all out in the open and has been for decades.