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Iceland grieves after police kill a man for the first time in its history

19 points by qiqing 11y ago

bobsky 11y ago
For reference, in the US there have been 470 people killed by the police just this year; that's ~3 people a day. Not debating just/unjust - just facts as compiled by The Guardian [1] The Economist wrote about this divergent trend between America's police and other nations, including in this potent chart [2]: "Deaths from Police Shootings" (latest year available) Japan = 0 Britain = 0 Germany = 8 America = 458 [1] http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2015/jun/01/the-counted-police-killings-us-database http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2015/jun/0... [2] http://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21636044-americas-police-kill-too-many-people-some-forces-are-showing-how-smarter-less http://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21636044-america...
- kedean 11y ago
  Also not trying to debate one way or the other, but I'd be interested to see those statistics extrapolated over multiple years so we could see what it looks like when you scale for population size. You obviously can't scale when some of the countries are zero (unless, like iceland, they just never have police related deaths). When population is accounted for with the german total, the US has only about 4x the population of germany, but about 57 times as many police shootings.
zeeed 11y ago
"A part of the great thing of living in this country is that you can enter parliament and the only thing they ask you to do is to turn off your cellphone, so you don't disturb the parliamentarians while they're talking. We do not have armed guards following our prime minister or president. That's a part of the great thing of living in a peaceful society. We do not want to change that. " Amen.
pvaldes 11y ago
Gosh, is not so funny when is legal ;-) http://icelandreview.com/news/2015/04/27/killing-basques-now-banned-west-fjords http://icelandreview.com/news/2015/04/27/killing-basques-now...

19 points by qiqing 11y ago

For reference, in the US there have been 470 people killed by the police just this year; that's ~3 people a day. Not debating just/unjust - just facts as compiled by The Guardian [1] The Economist wrote about this divergent trend between America's police and other nations, including in this potent chart [2]: "Deaths from Police Shootings" (latest year available) Japan = 0 Britain = 0 Germany = 8 America = 458 [1] http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2015/jun/01/the-counted-police-killings-us-database http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2015/jun/0... [2] http://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21636044-americas-police-kill-too-many-people-some-forces-are-showing-how-smarter-less http://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21636044-america...

kedean 11y ago
Also not trying to debate one way or the other, but I'd be interested to see those statistics extrapolated over multiple years so we could see what it looks like when you scale for population size. You obviously can't scale when some of the countries are zero (unless, like iceland, they just never have police related deaths). When population is accounted for with the german total, the US has only about 4x the population of germany, but about 57 times as many police shootings.

zeeed 11y ago

"A part of the great thing of living in this country is that you can enter parliament and the only thing they ask you to do is to turn off your cellphone, so you don't disturb the parliamentarians while they're talking. We do not have armed guards following our prime minister or president. That's a part of the great thing of living in a peaceful society. We do not want to change that. " Amen.

pvaldes 11y ago

Gosh, is not so funny when is legal ;-) http://icelandreview.com/news/2015/04/27/killing-basques-now-banned-west-fjords http://icelandreview.com/news/2015/04/27/killing-basques-now...