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Absolute. Today, the U.S. collectively spends $100 billion a year on policing and a further $80 billion on incarceration. Just the spending on policing is lar
by PartiallyTyped 5y ago
Absolute.
Today, the U.S. collectively spends $100 billion a year on policing and a further $80 billion on incarceration.
Just the spending on policing is larger than what other countries spend on military. Actually, the only country that spends more on military is China [1], after taking in incarceration costs, it is 2.5 times the military expenditure of India.
[1] https://www.sipri.org/publications/2021/sipri-fact-sheets/trends-world-military-expenditure-2020 https://www.sipri.org/publications/2021/sipri-fact-sheets/tr...
- Wameaw 5y agoThanks for the link, but have you read it? "the only country that spends more on military is China" 1 1 United States 778 4.4 -10 3.7 4.8 39 2 2 China [252] 1.9 76 [1.7] [1.7] [13] 3 3 India 72.9 2.1 34 2.9 2.7 3.7 :facepalm:
- PartiallyTyped 5y agoI compared US' __police__ spending of $100 billion, to the __military__ spending of other countries. I assume you missed that. The comparison is not between militaries, but US' police vs the military. :facepalm:
- Wameaw 5y agoAy, I did miss that, didn't go up enough to see the parent :facepalm: China do spend more on defense than policing, at lease nominally, per page 5 of the 2021 budget proposal hosted on Xinhua: "National defense spending was 1.267992 trillion yuan, 100% of the budgeted figure. Public security expenses totaled 183.59 billion yuan, 100.2% of the budgeted figure. " http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/download/20210313budget.pdf http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/download/20210313budget.pdf