More access to guns - total guess, btw.

 

Beat me to it.

Let’s look at our immediate neighbors to the north, Canada. The total number of citizens killed by law enforcement officers in the year 2014, was 14; that is 78 times less people than the US.

 

If we look at the United Kingdom, 1 person was killed by police in 2014 and 0 in 2013. English police reportedly fired guns a total of three times in all of 2013, with zero reported fatalities.

 

From 2010 through 2014, there were four fatal police shootings in England, which has a population of about 52 million. By contrast, Albuquerque, N.M., with a population 1 percent the size of England’s, had 26 fatal police shootings in that same time period.

 

China, whose population is 4 and 1/2 times the size of the United States, recorded 12 killings by law enforcement officers in 2014.

 

It doesn’t stop there.

 

From 2013-2014, German police killed absolutely no one.

 

Read more at Police in the US Kill Citizens at Over 70 Times the Rate of Other First-World Nations | The Free Thought Project

 

How many citizens did China's military kill. Because I guarantee you its more than 12 but they will never admit to that.

That is a little misleading considering that Canada has about 1/10th the population of the United States. Granted if the 78x number is accurate than the rate is still greater per capita than in the US, but considerably less.

 

Also gun access is much much more restricted in Canada. Have a good friend that worked in a jail there for several years and we often discussed the differences in Gun control and healthcare.

First, I agree 100% that full cooperation solves a lot of the problem. But not all of it.

 

We've heard here "Police can't be perfect, people make mistakes." So I'd assume we'd use that same logic towards citizens. People are going to commit crimes, and not all of those people are going to cooperate. Do those people get the same benefit of the doubt that LE gets when excessive force is used? Is non-cooperation an automatic green light for lethal force?

 

Because the "bad guy" was turning their life around and about to start college, yet they've been in and out of trouble multiple times. Mean while this is the first questionable incident the officer has been involved in. I could see why people would question the officers integrity over that of someone with a history of crime that was turning their life around.....