I think you raise some good points. Another issue is the prevelance of guns. From a recent article (I don&#x27;t know enough to vouch for these numbers in any way) [1]<p>* &quot;America has 4.4 percent of the world&#x27;s population but almost half of its civilian-owned guns.&quot;<p>* &quot;In 2013, the US had 106.4 gun deaths per million people. In 2011, the last year for which we have numbers, the UK endured 146 gun deaths total - or 2.3 gun deaths per million people.&quot;<p>* &quot;Plenty of research has found a strong correlation between the amount of guns in an area and its gun homicide rate&quot; ... &quot;Perhaps the single most supported contention in all of gun research is that more guns mean more gun deaths.&quot;<p>&gt; let&#x27;s not blame officers. They&#x27;re probably doing the best they can with a bad situation.<p>If by &quot;blame officers&quot; you mean assign group guilt to all individual police officers, I&#x27;d agree, but it&#x27;s just as mistaken to say all police officers are doing the best they can. We have many examples of specific police officers harming civillians, including outright murder (something clearly not related to threats to police and not happening in Sweden). Whole classes of Americans see the police as a threat. As these problems occur in many places, I think we can say there is a systemic problem with policing in the U.S.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.vox.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;10&#x2F;5&#x2F;9454161&#x2F;gun-violence-solution" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.vox.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;10&#x2F;5&#x2F;9454161&#x2F;gun-violence-solution</a>