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US police: 687k UK police: 123k

US police killed: 38 UK police killed: 3

If the rate in the UK was the same as the US, 6 policeman would be killed when actually only 3 were killed (123*38/687).

So in the US police are about twice as likely to be killed, yet they kill 500x more people.

You're right, they're not equatable _at all_.




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