Sunday, January 3rd, 2016
Stephan: Yet another report on the kill rate of America's paramilitary police forces compared to the rest of the developed world. When I ran the last story a few days ago a half dozen readers in other countries wrote me to tell me that they consider the U.S. the most "dangerous country in the world that isn't an active war zone."
As one man from Scotland put it, "I am an American expat and have family in the U.S.. My wife is Scottish and we used to come to the U.S. all through the 7os to the early 90s at least once a year. Now , frankly we think it is too dangerous to visit, and we'd rather buy tickets for my nieces and nephews to come here than go there."
Note also the linkage between police killings and the War on Drugs.
Unarmed British Bobbies. Most police in Great Britain do not even carry guns.
Credit: businesinsider
In all of 2011, British police killed 2 people. In 2012, 1 person. In 2013, a total of 3 bullets left the barrels of British police guns, and no one was killed. In the last two years, a total of 4 people have lost their lives because of British cops, bringing the total number of citizens killed in the UK to 7 in the last 5 years.
Since Christmas, police in America have killed 14 people. In 1 week, American cops have killed twice as many people as the British police have killed since 2011!
But if we zoom out just a little further, those numbers become even more shocking. Since 1990, police officers in the United Kingdom have killed exactly 58 people.
Since the 14th of December, police in America have killed 60 citizens — It took English cops 25 years to do what American cops have done […]