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They are not converging, not even close, please don’t spread misinformation. In 12 months up to March 2018, there were 18,746 armed police operations in the UK
by HatchedLake721 7y ago
They are not converging, not even close, please don’t spread misinformation.
In 12 months up to March 2018, there were 18,746 armed police operations in the UK. Weapons were fired on 12 occasions. In comparison, 1,147 people were shot dead by police in the US in 2017.
Since 1990, a total of 70 people were fatally shot in the UK.
12 occasions of guns used vs 1,147 people shot by the police during the same time frame. 70 people killed in 30 years vs 1,147 in 1 year.
So please, UK and US police are not converging, do not spread misinformation.
- adrianN 7y agoFor correctness sake you should normalize your numbers for population, but your point of course still stands.
- logicchains 7y agoUsing raw numbers without adjusting for population is spreading misinformation. America's population is ~5x greater. Using numbers from 1990 is also meaningless for addressing the claim that gun use by UK police is increasing, as low numbers could just represent it being low in past.
- yabadabadoes 7y agoSo if all gun deaths in the UK since 1990 were also in the last month then the 2 systems are converging?
- in_cahoots 7y agoJust looking at the 2017 numbers, a 5x population difference cannot account for a nearly 100x difference between uses of armed force vs people being killed by the police.