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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+(OP)
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...

>>grecy+j1
Great killrate and accuracy, too. Those bullets knew their target, on average.

>>jacobu+Q3
I have friends who are police that post videos of their gun training to social media. One exercise involves speeding up to an area in their cruiser and quickly coming to a stop. Then they exit the vehicle and use their door as cover while shooting a target as fast as they can. Afterwards they proudly smile and hold their target up to the camera.

The amount of gun training these officers receive is insane, and it's no wonder why so many resort to using their weapon first.