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>>miles+(OP)
Today I did some Googling and found this startling comparison:

NYPD annual Budget: 6 billion dollars Mexican military budget: 7 billion

It's no surprise that the police at these protests look like they're ready to take on a well-armed drug cartel. They are.

>>habosa+nf1
In the year 2015, in all of Germany, the Police only fired a total of 46 bullets [1], killing only 7 people in the entire country.

At 83 million, Germany's population is 25% that of the USA, so all things being equal the Police in the USA would only use 184 bullets per year, and there would only be 28 deaths as a result of police shootings.

In reality, The police in the USA shot shot and killed nearly 1,000 people in 2015 [2].

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/52r4zr/sho...

[2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/investigative/2015/12/26/a...