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Originally Posted by Chuck Bass
Coming from the nordics I have never understood why US cops are so damn trigger happy and always seem to be looking for confrontation instead of trying to solve things peacefully. I'm as white as they come, but I've had the same conversation many times on our US trips with my friends: the most dangerous people in the US are the cops. I've always felt myself less, not more safe in their presence.
I'm from Finland (population 5.5m), looking at our statistics a few years back our entire police force fired a total of six shots on duty during the whole calendar year. Five of those were warning shots.
There are a little over 1M cases every year where the cops are needed urgently (sirens on etc), and on average ten of those lead to using a weapon. Yet even just the sight of seeing a policeman here makes me feel incredibly safe in any situation.
I don't even want to know what those numbers look like in America, but I'm pretty sure there's room to push the shooting down quite a bit.
Reason 1: availability of guns in the US
Reason 2: institutionalized racism
Reason 3: misogynist, sexist, violent culture
