Global Lessons in Police Reform
By Laurence Ralph, July 30, 2020
▻https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/united-states/2020-07-30/police-reform-global-lessons
(...) GLOBAL POLICING NORMS
The analysis by Mapping Police Violence also contained another revealing finding: the group compared the victim data it had compiled against published crime rates and found no correlation between levels of violent crime in American cities and the likelihood of police killings. This presents a stark contrast with the rest of the world, where correlations generally exist between crime, social instability, and police killings. The United States is a wealthy, stable outlier in the list of countries with the highest rates of police killings. In 2019, the rate at which people were killed by the police in the United States (46.6 such killings per ten million residents) put it right between the Democratic Republic of the Congo (47.8 per ten million) and Iraq (45.1 per ten million), both of which are just emerging from years of conflict. Countries with levels of police brutality comparable to that in the United States are generally far more violent places to live and include ones, such as Egypt and Iran, that are often described by human rights campaigners as “police states.” (...)
▻https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_killings_by_law_enforcement_officers_by_country
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