Rip; how many police officers per million ppl gets wounded / killed per year in US and how many in GB?
Do You think it's safer in GB to be a cop than in US?
The US has approx 700,000 full time police officers, the UK about 140,000. In other words, almost the same per capita, as the US also has about 5 times as many people as the UK.
As such, the US has 5 times the number of police, 35 times as many police murdered. By my simple maths, the US rate is 7 times ours.
better cops than citiizens... They get paid to go into dangerous situations... least.... ours do..
It's not just the cops, though, Lazs.
Total murders in the last 5 years:
England & Wales: 4129
US: 80,423
(the US figures exclude 11th September, the UK ones exclude Shipman, who's murders were recorded in the last 5 years, but carried out in earlier years)
if you take out the black homicide rate (52% of all U.S. homicides) then your homicide rate is the same as ours but with more overall crime..
No, it's not.
The US had 16,137 murders last year.
About half those are by whites.
That's, say, 8000 murders.
The population of the US is about 295,000,000, of whom about 82% are white. That's about 242,000,000
8000 murders by 242,000,000 people is a rate of 3.3 per 100,000
The rate for England and Wales is 1.6
And that includes negligent manslaughter, which is excluded in the US. As an example, there are 20 "murders" in the UK figure that occured when a group of cockle pickers, illegal immigrants from China, drowned in Morecombe Bay. They are listed as homicide because of the negligence of the man in charge, who took them out at night without proper safety equipment etc.
In the US, cases like that aren't included in the FBI figures.
And the UK rate is also for all groups, not just cherrypicking the upper socio-economic groups and exludining large numbers of urban poor, who tend to commit most violent crimes.
You've previously said you think crime in the UK is nearly all committed by white people, as you don't think there are many immigrants in the UK.
The police are seeking 3 men for the murder of this woman officer, 2 are Somalis, the third is born in Britain of Somali parents. 25% of inmates in British prisons are from ethnic minorities.
