XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, uk.politics.misc, uk.legal   
   XPost: alt.politics.uk   
   From: PMD@SIBU.HQ   
      
   First-Post expressed precisely :   
   > 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.   
   >   
   > And US police officers actually run toward the bad guys as opposed to   
   > what those officers did.   
   > An American canine officer would have let the dog loose on the guy   
   > the second they saw the hammer.  What did the female Brit canine   
   > officer do?  Run away screaming taking her dog with her.   
   >   
   > Three American officers would have piled on the guy, hammer be   
   > damned. And they would have subdued him.  And a female US canine   
   > officer would not have been screaming like a school girl.   
      
   The dog should have gone in before he pulled any taser. That was   
   pathetic from the female officer. I pay my taxes for that debacle?   
      
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