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I think a great follow up to this is, what would these numbers look like if the majority of police didn't carry guns? I'm not sure how you'd get a sense of thi
by thenobsta 10y ago
I think a great follow up to this is, what would these numbers look like if the majority of police didn't carry guns?
I'm not sure how you'd get a sense of this though. Maybe data from other countries and comparison of security guard death rates. Both of these ideas are long shots.
- gervase 10y agoI did some (very quick) comparisons to Britain's police force, which for the most part is not armed. I ignored the confounding effects of the illegality of guns, assuming that most hardened criminals will be able to get one anyway (a convenient assumption, since I wasn't sure how to account for it any other way). British police are significantly less likely to be killed, or to kill, than U.S. officers. However, they are also much more likely to be assaulted, and injured in those assaults, than U.S. officers.
- knz 10y agoWhat role does a land border with Mexico play in that though? Many of these shootings happen near the southern border - are the police more aggressive because of the proximity to the cartel violence?