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American police kill more people in one day than Norway cops have in a decade

 
 
 
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http://www.businessinsider.com/american-police-kill-more-people-in-one-day-than-norway-cops-have-in-10-years-2015-7

Since January 1, 2015, police officers in the US have killed more than 600 people, with 100 of those deaths occurring in March alone. Even if statistics might suggest otherwise, the most visible incidents depict law enforcement as a system that is inherently prejudiced toward people of color.

For many, this leads to an inescapable conclusion: Police officers are threats, not lifelines.


Compare the sobering reality in the US with another one. In Norway, the last time a police officer shot and killed somebody was in 2006.


According to a new report issued by the Norwegian government, police fired just two shots in all of 2014. In the 12 years leading up to then, the only fatal shootings came in 2005 and 2006. Even in 2011, when terrorist Anders Breivik killed 77 people in Oslo and Utoya, Norway police fired just once.

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Norway's incarceration rate is one of the lowest in the world. In 2014, fewer than 0.08% of the population was locked up. In the US, where incarceration rates are the highest of any country, 0.72% of people were in prison — a jump of 900%.


So what's Norway's secret?


Rutgers University sociologist Paul Hirschfield suspects what makes guns so unnecessary for Norwegian cops is how the country structures its law enforcement.


"When policing is centralized, it is possible to institute and enforce provincial or national use of force rules," he says. At the federal level, the government has the power to implement sweeping programs that standardize when and how officers can use lethal force.


But the US isn't Norway. It has 313 million more people who lack a unified national identity and frequently engage in crimes driven by us-versus-them mentalities.


So what do we do?
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The fragmentation of policing in the US certainly makes any kind of solution hard to implement.

I can't imagine it helps much with the detection, pursuit, arrest, or prosecution of criminals either. But then, perhaps that's not what Americans think police are for. Who knows?
 
Norway secret: only has 5 million people and tons of oil money to fund a generous welfare program.
 
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