Police Killings per Capita v Homicide Rate per Capita for Select OECD Countries [OC]Submitted by dr5c t3_y350kf in dataisbeautiful
GenXHax0r t1_is732y0 wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in Police Killings per Capita v Homicide Rate per Capita for Select OECD Countries [OC] by dr5c
Seems to me, basically a line from 0,0 to top, right is the "justified" line -- seems reasonable that the more killings in general, greater numbers of police killings are justified. Bottom,right then is the "more police killings than justified" position.
[deleted] t1_is7437y wrote
This is exactly my point about fixing the axes. Now, I too wonder if there's some as of yet unidentified law that relates the two numbers. Is it linear, or exponentially increasing? Not being distracted by the suggestion that police kill more people, and having to look for that reason, unleashes all these new questions.
JosephusMillerTime t1_is8xh1v wrote
This sounds like a Police shooting apologist trying to be diplomatic in an overly gunned up, extremely inequitable and racist country.
I'm not saying you are, but if I was looking to explain away something that is not at all good, this is how I'd do it.
This graph doesn't show that police don't kill more people, for that we'd need the x axis per capita of police not general population.
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