German Police Used Only 85 Bullets Against People in 2011
Anyone know WHY this is?<p>Germany is certainly not crime free, so some possibilities that come to mind:<p>1. Perhaps German criminals, for whatever reason, are more docile than American criminals and give up when asked to so there is little need for the police to use violence.<p>2. Perhaps German criminals aren't as well armed as American criminals, and so when the police try to arrest them the criminals know they are outgunned and give up.<p>3. Perhaps German police are not very good at tracking down armed criminals and so the are few chance for the police to use guns.<p>If I had to guess, I'd guess that #2 is the most likely of those three possibilities, but I've surely not thought of all the possible explanations.<p>Without some insight into why they fire their guns so rarely, this statistic is just interesting trivia.