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   From: invalide@invalid.invalid   
      
   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.   
      
   Not at all.   
      
   >> 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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