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breakfasteveryday t1_is7reh1 wrote

I'd love to see the likelihood of someone being a killer among the police vs civilian population. Like "of 10,000 police, how many have killed someone" vs the civilian rate.

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Rimfax t1_is9nf21 wrote

There are about 2 police officers for every thousand Americans. So, 28 police killings for every 10 million Americans means there are 140 police killings for every 100k police officers, as compared to 5 civilian killings per 100,000 American civilians.

So, there are 28 times as many killings by police officers per police officer than there are killings by civilians per civilian.

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Beckler89 t1_isaa81q wrote

I don't see how that data would be pertinent, other than for curiosity's sake. The average person isn't put into tense and potentially violent situations with nearly the same frequency. It's not really a useful comparison because as a civilian, nobody is calling me when facing a threat.

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ScootForTheStars t1_is9d56j wrote

Damn I wonder if that would be difficult to find for this many countries but would be really interesting if someone did!

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crfman450 t1_is9ji0d wrote

There is data for police killings and homicides, than there has to be data on size of police force and general population🤔

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