And yet, there's no clear data to support your claim either....police shootings are far from the epidemic you'd like us to beleive.
Let's use 2008 as an example, shall we?
40 million police interactions with the public in your Country.
http://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/cpp08.pdfSome sources peg the number of police shootings around 400, such as:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post ... one-knows/$1:
Several independent trackers, primarily journalists and academics who study criminal justice, insist the accurate number of people shot and killed by police officers each year is consistently upwards of 1,000 each year.
Others have that number between 500-1000 per year. So let's take that number from above (400) and double it to 800 police shootings per year.
If we use 800 as an example, shootings occur in 0.002% of police interactions with 98+% of them being justified. Hardly an epidemic.
Some crackhead shot a soldier in Ottawa last week. Everybody lost their minds. If that's a big deal, why wouldn't several hundred murders a year be?
Very Stalinist I must say, reducing people to statistics.