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Ok, so now tell me how many police officers in the UK have died in the line of duty in the last ten years.
I'll save you the bother - 12
Of these, 4 were shot and 1 stabbed. 2 were run over by the suspect. The rest were accidents.
During this same ten years, police killed 18 suspects for various reasons.
Now how many police officers do you suppose were chased, attacked, punched, felt threatened, and basically under American standards have justification to shoot? I can't find figures for this, but I'll go out on a limb and say it's a much higher figure than the ones just discussed.
We don't have a problem here with police killing people, or with criminals killing police. Sure it happenes, we have nearly 70million people here. But it's rare.
You guys have around five times our population. We have similar cultures, similar education levels, similar people. Your rates should be comparable to ours. But they're not.
I mean you had 127 police deaths in 2014, compared with 625 killings by police. That's around twice as many cops dying, per capita. Meanwhile, your cops are killing around 7 times more suspects, per capita.
Why can't you see something is very wrong? Shooting a suspect should be a last resort, and even then it should be an effort to disable, not kill.
And yes, I realise this Zimmerman chap was not a cop, he was a neighbourhood watch security guard. But he was security, so it's a fair comparison imo.
I should add, if I were in possession of all the facts, I might agree that Zimmerman wasn't in the wrong to shoot. Maybe he did need to shoot to protect himself, I don't know and I'm not going to critisise him personally. But I can't see how your cops and security need to shoot quite so many people. Your cops are dying at twice the rate ours our, but suspects are dying at 7x the rate. That tells me that your cops are very likely shooting when their lives are not in danger.
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