Let me plagiarize a reddit comment here:<p>America&#x27;s LEOs may kill way people per capita, but our LEOs also <i>get killed by</i> people way more per capita. Even the most unhelpful lists of killings by police officers have an overwhelmingly common trend: &quot;Officers arrived. Suspect drew gun. Suspect didn&#x27;t drop gun when ordered to. Suspect pointed gun at officers. Officers opened fire.&quot; There are dozens or hundreds of people that are on killed-by-LEO lists only because they <i>shot second</i>.<p>Compare Canada to the US:
<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;canada.odmp.org&#x2F;year.php?year=2014&amp;Submit=Go" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;canada.odmp.org&#x2F;year.php?year=2014&amp;Submit=Go</a>
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.odmp.org&#x2F;search&#x2F;year&#x2F;2014" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.odmp.org&#x2F;search&#x2F;year&#x2F;2014</a><p>Similarly, if you look at Sweden&#x27;s first-ever police killing from a few years ago, the story isn&#x27;t about police dying heroically because they&#x27;re sacrificing themselves rather than killing criminals. It&#x27;s that they don&#x27;t have to kill anybody because nobody needs to be killed in order to defend others. &quot;Violent crime is almost non-existent there.&quot; No violent crime, no violent police. No problem.<p>So let&#x27;s not blame officers. They&#x27;re probably doing the best they can with a bad situation. Let&#x27;s blame the politicians who criminalize everything, the socioeconomic system that screws with poor people&#x27;s minds, the macho culture that drives gun nuttery and &#x27;stand-your-ground&#x27; and &#x27;fuck-tha-police&#x27; sentiments, and violence in general. Until we get rid of those we&#x27;re not going to be able to fix the police because, for the most part, the police aren&#x27;t broken.