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It seems to be quite a common perception of the US here in the UK. It's a shock seeing police with guns in the US and there's lots of articles like http://www.
by benjiweber 11y ago
It seems to be quite a common perception of the US here in the UK. It's a shock seeing police with guns in the US and there's lots of articles like
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jun/09/the-counted-police-killings-us-vs-other-countries http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jun/09/the-counted-p...
"England/Wales: 55 fatal police shootings in the last 24 years"
"US: 59 fatal police shootings in the first 24 days of 2015"
- ecdavis 11y agoI've commented about this before[0] but figured I'd add: it's not the fact that police carry guns, it's the way that they use them. To paraphrase my other comment, Australian police also carry guns and yet the number of people shot dead by police is 0.25/million people/year compared to 1.25/million people/year in the USA. Perhaps this is driven by the large amount of gun ownership and gun crime in the US, but I suspect it also comes down to cultural differences between police in the two countries. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8890386 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8890386