It's fun to compare them to other countries....because obviously if we compared them to police in the past, we might have to admit that we're complaining the most about the best police we ever had.
Let's be honest, plenty of those examples were entirely justified but that doesn't really change the reaction of the left.
tough finding data on this actually for Canada:
Canada Police deaths: 175 over the last 45 years (so average of just over four per year...or to argue just the homocide deaths....traffic related is iffy, the rest...meh just over 2/year)
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/mani...ian-police-homicides-by-the-numbers-1.4781581
US police deaths:
The Number Of U.S. Police Officers Killed In The Line Of Duty Increased Last Year [Infographic]
The FBI has released its
latest statistics regarding line-of-duty deaths and/or assaults on law enforcement officers in the United States. A total of 106 police officers lost their lives on duty last year, a 13% increase on 2017. 55 officers were feloniously killed while 51 died accidentally. The average age of officers killed feloniously was 37 and they had an average tenure of 10 years in law enforcement. Three were female and 52 were male.
55 deaths
Given your population is 10x ours, I gotta say, it's not like your data is ABSOLUTELY SHOCKINGLY out of control.
It's ballpark 1000 life and death struggles every year. If Canadian police ever faced conditions like that...I would be shocked to hear that their training hasn't changed.
How did you come to that number? You've quoted it several times now but I don't recall reading where you got it?
Besides, how would you define that? Is George Floyd a life and death struggle? Some would argue yes. I would say.....hahaha....incorrect.
Also, you remember this beauty?
The social worker talking to his client who had a TOY gun...lying on his back with his hands in the air, STILL managed to get shot by police.
You'll be (I hope) upset to learn that the shooting policeman just got off with little more than a slap and a tickle (from wikki):
In June 2019, Jonathon Aledda was retried and found not guilty on two counts of attempted manslaughter (felony charges) but guilty of
culpable negligence, a misdemeanor.
[50][51] He was not sentenced to prison, and was instead sentenced to one year of administrative probation, 100 hours of
community service, and to write a 2,500-word essay on communication and weapon discharges. His conviction would also not appear on a criminal record due to the withholding of adjudication.
[52] He was released from probation less than five months later.
[53]
I'm sorry but I'm pretty sure I remember your opinion on this one was pretty much in line with mine; this was some messed up, shoddy police work.
That man is dead and the cop got probation, com. service and an essay? Not even a criminal record (which would allow him to get hired as a copy somewhere else, presumably).
How can we pretend police work in America is competent if the standard of behaviour is THAT low? I have friends who are cops up here in Canada and they were STEAMING MAD when they found out about that shooting.