POLICEINOTHERDEVELOPEDCOUNTRIESDONOTKILLPEOPLE.

People responding to this tweet being like, “They do in Canada,” - “They do in the U.K.,” - “They do in ___.”

Stop trivializing the issue. You wanna talk about how the police killed 3 people in the U.K. in 2019? In the U.S. they killed 1146.

People killed per capita by police in the U.S.: 34.8

In Canada: 9.7

In France: 3.8

Belgium: 3.5

Netherlands: 2.3

New Zealand: 2.1

Norway: 1.9

Finland: 1.8

Australia: 1.3

Germany: 1.3

United Kingdom: 0.5

Poland: 0.5

Denmark: 0

Iceland: 0

Switzerland: 0

U.S. police kill people at roughly 10 to 35 times the rate of other developed nations, and that’s just looking at Western countries.

When police kill people in other developed nations, it’s a shocking aberration because it’s not actually what police are trained to do. When police kill people in the U.S., it’s “part of the job,” just how things work.

Stop trying to trivialize the situation in the U.S. by being like “but what about the 3 people killed by police in the U.K.?” Yes, those deaths are tragic, but the U.S. has a problem built into the very function of the police system.

Until police killings are no longer “part of the job,” the problem will never go away.