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   statisticsworld (statisticsworld@mastodon.world)'s status on Friday, 29-Dec-2023 04:28:26 JST statisticsworld

   👮♂️ Hours of police training required by country:

   🇺🇸 USA: 652 hours
   🇨🇦 Canada: 1,040 hrs
   🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 England: 2,250 hrs
   🇦🇺 Australia: 3,500 hrs
   🇩🇪 Germany: 4,050 hrs
   🇳🇱 Netherlands: 4,050 hrs
   🇻🇳 Vietnam: 5,400 hrs
   🇮🇳 India: 5,400 hrs
   🇫🇮 Finland: 5,400 hrs
   🇦🇪 UAE: 5,400 hrs
   🇦🇿 Azerbaijan: 10,400 hrs
   🇵🇹 Portugal: 10,400 hrs

   Killings by law enforcement in 2020:

   🇺🇸 USA: 1,021
   🇨🇦 Canada: 52
   🇦🇺 Australia: 16
   🇩🇪 Germany: 9
   🇬🇧 UK: 5

   According to The Institute for Criminal Justice Training Reform, Police shootings database

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     Church of Jeff (jeffowski@mastodon.world)'s status on Friday, 29-Dec-2023 04:28:56 JST Church of Jeff

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     @statisticsworld -- #ACAB

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     Betsy Bee (betsybeeee@toot.community)'s status on Friday, 12-Jan-2024 03:05:56 JST Betsy Bee

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     • stib
     • Tor Kingdon

     @stib @kingtor @statisticsworld multiply the Australian figure by 10 and you get 160. Not exactly comparable to the US figure at all.

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     stib (stib@aus.social)'s status on Friday, 12-Jan-2024 03:05:58 JST stib

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     • Tor Kingdon

     @kingtor
     It's also not per-capita. Eg multiply the Australian result by roughly 10 to get a comparable statistic to the US number.
     @statisticsworld

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     Tor Kingdon (kingtor@urbanists.social)'s status on Friday, 12-Jan-2024 03:05:59 JST Tor Kingdon

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     @statisticsworld point taken, but I feel there's some cherry-picking of stats on this since not all countries appear on both lists.