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  • Int_not_found@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    In Germany about 60 people are shot per year by police

    According to whom? The officially reported figure lies between 5 & 15 fatal shots fired by police officers per year, with 15 being a sharp outlier.

    Obviously it’s better if no one got shot but let’s not overexaggerate the risk, like has been happening in this thread and is what I’m responding to.

    The thread you are responding to talks about the track record of US police officer not the all around risks of being alive. So let's look at the track record of US police officer. A US police officer is 200x more likely to shoot somebody, then his German counter part (adjusted for population). How high would you put that number, before it is worth discussing to you? How many people have to die, that you are willing to discuss this issue?