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Re:German Police Used Only 85 Bullets Against People in 2011 by alister on Sunday May 13, 2012 @06:13AM (#3966597)
> German police statistics underestimate weapon use a bit

Can you explain how?

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Re:German Police Used Only 85 Bullets Against People in 2011 by rbehrends on Sunday May 13, 2012 @08:11AM (#3966795)
Methodological stuff mostly, as far as I know. For example, they generally do not include firearms use by the federal police (which includes the Federal Border Guard and the anti-terror unit GSG-9).

Because the police is primarily a state-level power (as in the USA), with the federal government having only a limited role (in fact, the BKA as the German counterpart of the FBI probably has less power than the FBI), this should not affect totals too much.

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