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Livvie

For those of you who aren’t from the USA, how common are police shootings of unarmed people in your country?

The USA seems to have a problem with it.

Posted - April 13, 2021
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  • 11102
    This might surprise you but in Canada someone is shot and killed by a cop on the average of every 12.6 days. In Canada it is usally a Indigenous person that is shot and killed by cops so like America our police shootings seem to be race related. Cheers!
      April 13, 2021 8:49 PM MDT
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  • 5451
    That is surprising about Canada, being that our stereotype of you is that you’re a big, peaceful and happy country where everybody gets along.  You had 36 police shootings (9.7 per 10000000 people) in 2019, so that makes it seem like Canada’s a much more peaceful country.


    This post was edited by Livvie at April 15, 2021 11:45 PM MDT
      April 15, 2021 10:37 PM MDT
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  • I don't know the statistics, but Argentina has a problem with abusive police and with police shooting unarmed protesters.  It's against the law for a police officer to shoot an unarmed person, but they do it anyway.
      April 13, 2021 10:29 PM MDT
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  • 5451

    I would’ve thought that your country had less of a problem just based on the numbers I looked up online.  Our 1146 police shootings (34.8 per 10000000 people) in 2019 were a lot more than your 95 police shootings (21.6 per 10000000 people) in 2019.




     

    This post was edited by Livvie at April 19, 2021 9:46 PM MDT
      April 15, 2021 10:45 PM MDT
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  • Most of our illegal police shootings are directed at protestors, labour strikes and poor people.  Our politicians don't do anything about it.  Doing nothing about anything is the one thing where opposing political parties agree with each other.
      April 19, 2021 10:01 PM MDT
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  • 16763
    Used to be a problem in the state of Victoria - until a Royal Commission of Inquiry was held into police shootings, and a huge number of them were fired, and quite a few imprisoned. Haven't had any for a while now. Armed suspects have been shot (like the siege in Sydney's Lindt Cafe a few years ago). No unarmed ones.
      April 14, 2021 4:57 AM MDT
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  • 5451
    What Victoria did seems to have worked, so maybe we should think about copying it or doing something similar here.
      April 15, 2021 10:35 PM MDT
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  • 510
    Not much but there are incidents these days!
      April 14, 2021 12:05 PM MDT
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  • 5451
    That’s a good thing.  Were your police always more well-behaved or was there something that your country needed to fix?
      April 15, 2021 10:46 PM MDT
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  • 510
    There are countless number of things that need a fix!
      April 16, 2021 11:28 AM MDT
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  • 53504

      Where is that, please?
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      April 15, 2021 11:13 PM MDT
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  • 510
    as if you don't know!
      April 16, 2021 11:27 AM MDT
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