If a foreign country had a rogue police force that killed citizens and then passed a law criminalizing the recording of the police we'd easily call them a dictatorship.
That’s not supported by actual statistics, even if it’s a popular narrative among some political groups.
What other statistic should I be looking at?
Interestingly, Canada is the 35th, but it still has about 9 times fewer cases per capita than the US...
Which makes sense, given the US’s problems with organized crime and drug trafficking — and a generally more armed society.
Something is very wrong with the American police/society/whatever, you can't deny that.
Additionally, German police is training their people for ~2.5-3 years [2], whereas the US training is a couple of weeks at worst and a national average of 19 weeks [3].
The US needs to get a lot under control if it wants less police murders: they need to get rid of the absurd amounts of guns floating around, they need a drastic sentencing reform and the complete end of all three-strike policies, they (and fwiw, we too) need to end the "war on drugs", and they need to actually treat police training like any regular job education.
Unfortunately, getting the required majorities to fix all that is completely impossible.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-strikes_law
[2] https://www.mit-sicherheit-anders.de/
[3] https://www.spiegel.de/panorama/justiz/usa-kritik-an-ausbild...
Difference is that they do not except (that much) someone will have gun.
https://nypost.com/2022/07/03/ohio-police-release-video-of-o...
> https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/03/us/akron-police-shooting-...