XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, uk.politics.misc, uk.legal   
   XPost: alt.politics.uk   
   From: NOTsomeone@microsoft.com   
      
   On 16/01/2017 17:46, First-Post wrote:   
   > On Mon, 16 Jan 2017 17:14:24 +0000, GB    
   > wrote:   
   >   
   >>   
   >> British police are far less likely to get killed or injured on duty than   
   >> US police.   
   >>   
   >> 123 US officers killed in 2015 and 122 in 2014.   
   >>   
   >> 1 UK officer killed in 2015 and none in 2014.   
   >>   
   >> Why do you think that is?   
   >>   
   >   
   > Probably because it is a homogenous society (only 14% minorities) and   
   > a population of roughly 1/5th that of the US.   
   > There are over 765,000 police officers (those with arrest authority)   
   > in the US.  Total law enforcement personnel of around 1.1 million   
   > within a population of over 320 million.   
   > The UK has right at 127,000 officers total.   
   > You're feebly trying to compare apples to watermelons.   
      
   A population or a police force roughly 5 times as large doesn't go very   
   far towards explaining over 200 times as many deaths.   
      
      
   >   
   > And US police officers actually run toward the bad guys as opposed to   
   > what those officers did.   
      
   Actually, they'd have stood back and gunned him down. Which is why the   
   perp would probably have been armed himself and would have tried to   
   shoot the officers first. Which is really why so many US police officers   
   get killed.   
      
   I don't think that the UK police were particularly well-organised in   
   that video, but in the end they subdued the guy without anybody being   
   badly hurt.   
      
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