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Re:Icelandic Police kill someone for the first time. by mixmax on Monday December 02, 2013 @04:55PM (#6836832)
While I don't know the facts it doesn't seem unreasonable to me that the police has never killed anyone in Iceland. It's a small and peaceful country.

I'm from Denmark, which is culturally fairly close to Iceland and we still talk about the riot in 1993 where the police fired 111 shots in the most violent encounter with rioters since the second world war (noone was killed or seriously injured). We're a country of 5 million and we have less than one person a year that gets shot to death by the police. In Norway they're right now discussing whether the police should even be allowed to carry weapons.

If you're American I can understand your disbelief, since it's an extremely violent country, but as a scandinavian it seems quite believable.

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Re:Icelandic Police kill someone for the first time. by tzs on Monday December 02, 2013 @05:10PM (#6836932)
Per capital, though, police in Denmark kill more people per year than those in Sweden, Norway, Finland, Germany, the Netherlands, or England. [1]

[1] http://www.politi.dk/NR/rdonlyres/20DE43AF-33F4-48C5-A710-6A...

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Re:Icelandic Police kill someone for the first time. by Pxtl on Monday December 02, 2013 @05:07PM (#6836908)
Canadian.

And I just meant that I would assume that, unless the article further elaborates on this "first", at some point in the entire history of the country of Iceland, somebody had died at the hands of law-enforcement. Even at a rate of once per decade.

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