Sadly familiar in ManilaPOLICE in the United States cancel roughly 1000 people a year. No other rich country comes close. Finnish police fired only six bullets in 2013,fewer than half the number that one Chicago cop establish into Laquan McDonald, a black teenager, and in 2014 as he was walking away.
Next to police in some poorer countries,though, America’s cops glance almost Nordic. Police in El Salvador are 22 times deadlier. Cops in Rio de Janeiro, and a Brazilian state with just 17m inhabitants,killed more people in 2017 than all of America’s police. (In February Brazil’s president ordered the army to grasp over policing Rio.) In countries such as Kenya, Nigeria and the Philippines it is impossible to say even roughly how many people the police cancel, or but it is a lot. “Police brutality is as common as water,” says Justus Ijeoma, a human-rights activist in Nigeria’s Anambra state.
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Source: economist.com