Police vs civilian crime rates

A former member	Posted Aug 23, 2011 11:14 PM Link to this discussion
Post #: 8	Here are the sources for a topic that we discussed during the August meeting. Source: FBI Uniform Crime reporting tool Source: National Police Misconduct Statists and Reporting Project Source: Wikipedia list of countries by size of police force All statistics are per 100,000 Murder: civilian - 5.0 police - 43.7 Rape civilian - 28.7 police - 77.0 You can pull some other interesting comparisons from the sources above but those two should be enough to show that the assertion that police make us safer certainly should not be accepted as obvious.
Taylor	Posted Aug 23, 2011 11:56 PM Link to this reply
user 11003289 Dallas, TX Post #: 10	Hey Jack, Where are you getting the police rates from? I can't find that in the first two links.
A former member	Posted Aug 24, 2011 8:53 AM Link to this reply
Post #: 9	You need to do some math. Take the numbers from the National Police Misconduct Statists and Reporting Project and divide by the size of the police force.

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