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Re:'Siri I'm getting pulled over': New shortcut can automati... by elbasti on Thursday October 04, 2018 @08:09AM (#18139118)
Swedish police fires a gun, on average, about 30 times per year, with about half of those being "for effect" as opposed to being shot with the intent to kill.

The united states doesn't track the number of times police shoot a gun, only the number of times police murder somebody. That number is over 1,000 people per year.[0]

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police_firearm_use_by_country

Re:'Siri I'm getting pulled over': New shortcut can automati... by O_H_E on Thursday October 04, 2018 @08:36AM (#18139310)
I agree with the premise of all what you and others are saying, but for the sake of fairness we should not eliminate the size of the population from the equation
Re:'Siri I'm getting pulled over': New shortcut can automati... by ceejayoz on Thursday October 04, 2018 @09:18AM (#18139593)
Population doesn't change it much.

The LAPD put over 100 rounds in one incident into two innocent women's truck when they were out delivering newspapers. The truck looked nothing like the suspect's vehicle. http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/no-charges-8-lapd-s...

> When one of the women threw a newspaper onto the pavement in the early-morning hours, an officer believing the sound was a gunshot opened fire. Officers unable to see clearly into the truck sprayed it with 103 rounds, and hit seven nearby homes and nine other vehicles with gunshots and shotgun pellets.

That's more rounds than Germany uses in most years for its entire 80M population, and more than the UK discharged in what looks like the last decade or so. In one shooting, in one city, against people who'd done nothing wrong.

Re:'Siri I'm getting pulled over': New shortcut can automati... by O_H_E on Thursday October 04, 2018 @10:01AM (#18139935)
I totally agree that the US is way more violent, was just pointing out something
Re:'Siri I'm getting pulled over': New shortcut can automati... by Pudini on Thursday October 04, 2018 @02:17PM (#18142232)
So:

30 guns fired / 10.10^6 people vs 1 000 police murders / 325.10^6 people.

3.10^-6 guns fired per capita vs 3.10^-6 murders per capita.

Couldn't find the Swedish police murders stats. I'd estimate on their police murders per capita to be 2 or 3 orders of magnitude less than the USA.

Re:'Siri I'm getting pulled over': New shortcut can automati... by vxNsr on Thursday October 04, 2018 @06:09PM (#18144114)
On the other hand Chicago had nearly 2 murders/day last year [0]. and 3/4 were from a gun, I certainly wouldn't wanna be the cop who has to walk those streets without one.

[0]http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-chicago...

Re:'Siri I'm getting pulled over': New shortcut can automati... by coldtea on Thursday October 04, 2018 @09:02AM (#18139475)
Percentages don't look good either. In fact they are an order of magnitude worse than the 1:1 ratio for most EU countries...
Re:'Siri I'm getting pulled over': New shortcut can automati... by O_H_E on Thursday October 04, 2018 @10:01AM (#18139939)
I totally agree that the US is way more violent, was just pointing out something