It feels like special pleading to me to claim that Americans are more criminal.
Upon further analysis, yeah, it kinda is. All that can be said is that (non-canadian) Americans are more
murderous. Even then, you could argue it's just easier for us.
First of all, the homicide rate aint a great metric. You are claiming that the US is hard to police because of the guns but the number of guns inflates the US homicide rate by making people much more likely to kill each other.
Fair point. Like I said in the spoiler, I went with homicides because there's no wikipedia article for countries organized by crime rate (and I just assumed homicides would roughly mirror general crime, despite knowing better). I also figured homicides were somewhat more relevant, as I imagine most police shootings are done in fear of homicide (whether or not that's a likely outcome of the situation), and therefore would likely be more closely tied to police shootings.
Anyway, as I said in the spoiler, I'm perfectly willing to find another metric if you want. So I did.
USA: 41.42
Ireland: 20.67
Poland: 36.73
New Zealand: 108.2
UK: 109.96
Norway: 72.73
Australia: Not available?
Iceland: 209.52
Sweden: 138.25
Canada: 80.25
Japan: 22.39
Denmark: 91.34
Finland: 100.03
Is that accurate? If not, please go find something yourself. I'm sleepy.
For another thing, other countries have problems too. France for instance has a complicated colonial history that is still with them today and living in the suburbs of Paris.
Sure. I'll admit to being rather worthless at understanding other countries problems, due to my lifetime spent within the US, and my general lack of interest in such topics up until very recently. However, I'd like to point out that France doesn't have such a massive issue with police shootings, which I believe was our topic?
TBH, I don't think overwork of police is the
main reason for the high number of police shootings, I just thought your counter-argument was worthless on its own.