XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, uk.politics.misc, uk.legal   
   XPost: alt.politics.uk   
   From: burfordTjustice@tues.uk   
      
   On Mon, 16 Jan 2017 17:58:13 +0000   
   GB  wrote:   
      
   > 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.   
   >   
   >   
      
   Eh, what about the hammer blows to the head...minor shit,eh?   
      
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