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Who gets shot in America
- jchonphoenix 12y agoFor the love of god, have a chart in an article like this
- grecy 12y agoAnother excellent related "how other countries do it" example is the data that shows German police used only 85 bullets against people in 2011 [1]. Actually, 49 were warning shots, 36 shots on suspects. 15 persons were injured, 6 were killed. The population of Germany is 80 million, the USA is 318 million, right on 4x bigger. If the per-capita numbers were somewhat similar, Police in America would only kill 24 people per year. In reality, ~400 people are killed by law enforcement in the USA each year, or about 16 times more than if they followed Germany's numbers. (not all of those are shooting, but the vast majority are) (The overall murder rate is 4.8/100k in the USA vs 0.8/100k in Germany. [3] ) [1] http://www.thewire.com/global/2012/05/german-police-used-only-85-bullets-against-people-2011/52162/ http://www.thewire.com/global/2012/05/german-police-used-onl... [2] http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/nation/2008-10-14-justifiable_N.htm http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/nation/2008-10-14-justif... [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentional_homicide_rate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intention...