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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_killings_by_law_enforc...

The rate of police killings is vastly higher in the US than any other Western country. So something is going on there that is not a universal phenomenon.

>>tprice+(OP)
People in US have too many guns. Cops are afraid for their life and use preventive violence.

>>tprice+(OP)
This page has inaccurate data. I checked for my country and the listed number disagrees with the linked source next to it!

>>vbezhe+K1
Switzerland has a lot of guns yet we don't have this police issue here.

>>sschue+p3
Aren't those Swiss guns mostly rifles, rather than handguns?

>>sschue+p3
How many police are killed in Switzerland per year?

>>jpxw+R5
What's your argument here ? Police brutality is ok because US police officers are more prone to being killed ? By now there are thousands of videos clearly showing people not resisting, sometimes not even participating in any crime, being beaten and/or killed by the police, it's not normal and no one should defend that.

Gun violence in the US is the symptom of very deep problems, you can't consider it just by itself while disregarding the societal issues being it.

>>vbezhe+K1
I really think it is this simple. When any random person on the street can be concealing a firearm, it seems almost natural that police are going to develop a culture of adversity and fear. This of course leads to civilians having the same feelings towards the police.

>>sschue+p3
They don't openly carry handguns.

>>lm2846+g7
No one said that police brutality is OK, just that it can be partially explained by the fact that police in the US are more likely to be killed than in other countries.

>>jpxw+R5
The total murder rate in Switzerland appears to be less than 200 per year; you're welcome to try to find more stats in this if you speak German: https://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/de/home.assetdetail.11147486.ht...

>>vbezhe+K1
Yet police have one of the safer jobs in the USA. Loggers, fisherman, roofers, truckers, farmers, and construction workers all hold more dangerous jobs than police. A police officer is more likely to die in an accident (car or otherwise) than by violence.

And despite this, it's continually hammered home into their heads that they have a very, very dangerous job. Yeah, you're correct, it's fear from the lies told to them.