XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, uk.politics.misc, uk.legal   
   XPost: alt.politics.uk   
   From: ProgressivesWillKillAmerica@invalid.org   
      
   On Mon, 16 Jan 2017 19:33:56 GMT, Paul Pot  wrote:   
      
   >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?   
      
   She did indeed appear to be more of just a woman with a dog than any   
   professional canine officer.   
      
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