If you are an American, there is a yearly 0.005% chance you will kill someone. If you are an American cop, there is a yearly 0.125% chance you will kill someone. A cop is 25x more likely to kill someone than a random American is.

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[–]magnora7[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Just came up with this analysis on my own, kind of eye-opening.

Funny how police from other developed countries do not have similar stats.

American police are exceptionally violent, closer to Brazil in per-capita police violence rates, than to Western Europe. I think this is a situation that can be fixed, but people have to want it to be fixed

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doesn't America have demographics more similar to Brazil than to Western Europe?

[–]lmaonope333 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I once had a conversation with retired cop. He said that in his town, the cops were part of the community. After dark, the cops would sit in their car with the lights on so the kids in the town could play basketball. In large cities, cops usually dont know the communities they are policing. In small towns, theres more accountability because if a cop fucks up bad they'll be shunned from their community