• Warl0k3@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    These numbers are easily found and already bad enough, why make absurd ones up instead? OP misread

    There were 1200 police-involved deaths in the US last year, not 350,000. A huge number, 6x more than France would have had were the populations equivalent, but not anything like the population of an entire large city being gunned down yearly.

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      7 hours ago

      you are right, because i misread it and took the wrong column in a table. this was yearly not per million - it’s 33,5 per 10mio. in the usa against 5 per 10mio. in france.

      thanks for pointing it out. i edited the comment