Re:Breonna Taylor case: Louisville police nearly blank incid...
by nl on Thursday June 11, 2020 @05:42AM
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> I've seen an article on CNN the other day that says US kills twice as many people (per 1M arrests) than Australia.
Do you have the link?
I don't know how to find the number of arrests, but in Australia there were 4 people killed by law enforcement in 2016/17 and in the US there were 1,536 killed (2019). Australia has a population of 24M, the US 329M, (so 13 times the population). At the same per-population rate as Australia, the US would kill 52 people, and at double the per-population rate it would be 104.
It would seem astonishing that the arrest rates somehow converts to the US only killing twice as many people!
Do you have the link?
I don't know how to find the number of arrests, but in Australia there were 4 people killed by law enforcement in 2016/17 and in the US there were 1,536 killed (2019). Australia has a population of 24M, the US 329M, (so 13 times the population). At the same per-population rate as Australia, the US would kill 52 people, and at double the per-population rate it would be 104.
It would seem astonishing that the arrest rates somehow converts to the US only killing twice as many people!