• Djehngo@lemmy.world
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      9 days ago

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_with_annual_rates_and_counts_for_killings_by_law_enforcement_officers

      • Venuzela is 1st with 1829.9 per 10M
      • USA is at 29th with 33.1 per 10M
      • Poland is at 60th with 0.5 per 10M
      • Denmark, Iceland, Switzerland and Croatia are recorded as 0

      Declaring something happens in every country with armed police Is asinine when it happens 55 times more in some places and 66 times less in others.

      When there are countries with such a dramatically lower rate of security services killing civilians there are important lessons to be learned there, rather than throwing up our hands and saying something like “well states will murder wherever states exist, don’t worry about it, it’s normal”. Edit: better characterisation in pupperdreams’ reply below

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      9 days ago

      Pretty much yes, among developed countries. But the USA is really a third world country by all counts, except for greed (economy).