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My guess would be healthcare costs, bay area living costs or the dice you you have to pass every time you encounter a police offer.

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"the dice you have to [roll] every time you encounter a police [officer]"? Are engineers recruited from Cambridge of the sort that particularly attract the attention of the police?

22% in the latest admissions cycle (though that's across undergraduates as a whole, not engineers specifically).

People are down voting because of the dice roll part. But it's not that far off reality when compared with other western nations

I'm not overly concerned, this forum is extremely USA-centric.

Across the entire UK there were only 4 police shootings in to 2016 and only 2 total in all of 2012-2014.

I'm willing to bet America has 4 yesterday (even adjusting for proportion populations)

Well, UK officers don't carry guns as much as US officers do. UK officers also don't have to worry about guns as much. However, the lack of centralization of the US system and culture/mindset of the US officers (as a whole) are the main problems IMO

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