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> Police in America kill 10X as many people per capita as Canadian police kill. These kinds of stats are so dishonest. Police in America are subject to 10x mor

• arcticbull 6y ago
  > "Police in America are subject to 10x more violence per capita as Canadians." Citation needed. Especially as studies show that increasing militarization of the police force leads to more civilian deaths [1], and the trend towards militarization has been stark and pronounced in the US. [2] The issue is really that the US uses police as customer service for life and as front-line mental health treatment due to lack of proper socialized medicine. They are also trained to shoot first and ask questions later -- to treat everyone as a potential threat to their lives. However, let's take what you say as fact. This points to a deep failure in society that needs to be addressed. People are products of their society, and if society is more violent in America then some serious introspection needs to be done. Looking at 10X per capita and shrugging it off as "well that's just America for you" is the problem. [1] https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/2018/07/05/evidence-suggests-the-militarization-of-police-forces-leads-to-more-civilian-deaths/ https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/2018/07/05/evidence-sugges... [2] https://fee.org/articles/the-militarization-of-americas-police-a-brief-history/ https://fee.org/articles/the-militarization-of-americas-poli...