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Our Canadian national radio just reported that 3 people are shot by police every day in the USA. Thats 900 per year. That stat boggles my mind. I'm not sure how to take that...more gun control, less gun control, less bad guys, cops too free wheeling.... They said many are black guys that are shot and it hardly makes the local news.
Being from Western Canada, if a cop shot a person is would be national news for a month!
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Canucks must have a better class of criminals?...Geo
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Canucks must have a better class of criminals?...Geo Possibly. Could be they have a better class of national radio. I never heard anyone claim that npr boggles the mind.
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3 per day is 1095 per year. 2 per day is 730. Both numbers ignore leap year. 730 is closer to 900 than 1095. How come your public radio system didn't report the number as two per day or spend the extra money for a decimal and another digit and report it as 2.5 per day?
USA has a per capita murder rate about three times that of Canada.
The USA has about 9.4 times Canada's population.
If the USA had the same population total as Canada and the USA kept its same police-shooting-citizen ratio then 900 per year would become 96 per year or about one every 4 days.
The more encounters between LEOs and violent criminals the more chances for a violent criminal to be shot. And the more chances for a LEO to be shot by a violent offender.
How many people were shot by LEOs in Canada last year?
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Not sure that's really the issue Mike. Its getting to be pretty scary with law enforcement's recent executions of two black men. Having seen the numerous videos on the news, I'm not sure what can be said to justify each shooting. The first guy was on the ground being restrained with his hands nowhere near his pockets and he was outright killed on video. The second fellow told the cop he had a gun and a C&C and the cop light him up when he went to get him his ID. He did not even have his gun in hand. Neither of these guys were brandishing their firearms at law enforcement. What justifies their shooting? It seems to me that these two black men were killed for nothing more then having a firearm on them of at the time of police contact. Were these men killed for enforcing their second amendment rights?
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Hate to say it but most probably deserved to be shot. How many I wonder were non Caucasian?
Just heard that in Chicago along for the month of June average killed was 15 a day. These are not police shootings.
Wonder why his holiness doesn't mention any of these.
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Good stats, indeed, Dan. Canadians are different from Americans, live in a peaceable kingdom by comparison with most other countries. The stats you posted begin with the 1932 Mountie shoot-out with "Mad Trapper" Johnson, one of North America's great manhunts at the time. That stats list covers 84 years!
The 2016 Social Progress Index, defined by basic human needs, foundations of wellbeing and opportunity in 133 countries, ranks Canada No. 2 after Finland (by less than a point), followed by Denmark, Australia and Switzerland in the Very High Social Progress ranking. Canada is not invulnerable to other countries' antics.
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It is the HEAT!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Good stats, indeed....
....The 2016 Social Progress Index, defined by basic human needs, foundations of wellbeing and opportunity.... I think the important thing to take from the good stats is that Canada is showing an extremely disturbing trend of increasing homicide at the hands of law enforcement. Do you think mention of the 'progress index' is somehow related?
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