Re:FBI director calls lack of data on police shootings "ridi...
by _wo6a on Thursday October 08, 2015 @11:37AM
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For the lazy, murders per death by cop, based on those numbers:
Germany: 83
California: 17
Murders per capita:
Germany: 1/124,000
California: 1/23,000
So California's murder rate is 5.4x Germany's, and its death by cop per murder rate is 4.9x Germany's.
Is it just me, or wouldn't you expect the death by cop rate to be more than a linear function of the murder rate... perhaps even a polynomial function?
A difference in murder rate of x does not necessarily mean a difference in levels of violence/danger of x.
Germany: 83
California: 17
Murders per capita:
Germany: 1/124,000
California: 1/23,000
So California's murder rate is 5.4x Germany's, and its death by cop per murder rate is 4.9x Germany's.
Is it just me, or wouldn't you expect the death by cop rate to be more than a linear function of the murder rate... perhaps even a polynomial function?
A difference in murder rate of x does not necessarily mean a difference in levels of violence/danger of x.