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Can we make any comparisons with how police in other countries typically deal with these situations? I'd like to know if this is a hard problem for all police e
by projectileboy 10y ago
Can we make any comparisons with how police in other countries typically deal with these situations? I'd like to know if this is a hard problem for all police everywhere, with similar outcomes, or if this is a problem unique to U.S. police, based on how they're trained.
- Sharlin 10y agoWell, either this sort of a hard problem happens much more frequently in the US, or the police in other countries are much less trigger-happy and better at de-escalation, negotiation and other soft tactics. The list of lists of killings by police officers in different countries is pretty eye-opening [1]. In many European countries police killing someone is always news and happens at most a few times per year, even in countries comparable in size to the US. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_killings_by_law_enforcement_officers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_killings_by_law_enfor...