Criminals in the UK are far more likely to give up when confronted. Take a look at the list of UK police fatalities. There are entire years without a single death from any cause. (Traffic accidents, heart attacks suffered during foot chases, etc.) If you compare deaths caused by attacks by suspects you have to go back 25 years to get as many deaths as US cops had by in 2014 alone. Granted, the UK is a smaller country, but even going by rate per capita, cops in the US are forced to defend themselves much more often.
Yeah I know, our cops are what you get when they get bogged down in red tape, discharge weapon? Full investigation! Makes them equally useless and hated because they are pretty much useless now.
I wasn't saying they killed people with brutality I was saying that even though they don't their reputation is still very "meh" and eradicating police brutality in America won't make them suddenly some shining paragon to the public. The public will always be wary of police.
Criminals in the UK are far more likely to give up when confronted. Take a look at the list of UK police fatalities. There are entire years without a single death from any cause. (Traffic accidents, heart attacks suffered during foot chases, etc.) If you compare deaths caused by attacks by suspects you have to go back 25 years to get as many deaths as US cops had by in 2014 alone. Granted, the UK is a smaller country, but even going by rate per capita, cops in the US are forced to defend themselves much more often.
Yeah I know, our cops are what you get when they get bogged down in red tape, discharge weapon? Full investigation! Makes them equally useless and hated because they are pretty much useless now.
I wasn't saying they killed people with brutality I was saying that even though they don't their reputation is still very "meh" and eradicating police brutality in America won't make them suddenly some shining paragon to the public. The public will always be wary of police.