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[deleted] t1_is6zumc wrote

Reply to comment by dr5c in Police Killings per Capita v Homicide Rate per Capita for Select OECD Countries [OC] by dr5c

This is WAY better. Now we can see that police killings are small compared to homicides, and we're free to compare countries by their ratios (slope to the point) and magnitudes (distance from the origin.) This graph invites us to visually study it.

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scottevil110 t1_is9o0q5 wrote

Better but mislabeled. Per capita means per person (per head) so by definition they need to be on the same scale if that's the terminology you're using.

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GenXHax0r t1_is732y0 wrote

Seems to me, basically a line from 0,0 to top, right is the "justified" line -- seems reasonable that the more killings in general, greater numbers of police killings are justified. Bottom,right then is the "more police killings than justified" position.

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[deleted] t1_is7437y wrote

This is exactly my point about fixing the axes. Now, I too wonder if there's some as of yet unidentified law that relates the two numbers. Is it linear, or exponentially increasing? Not being distracted by the suggestion that police kill more people, and having to look for that reason, unleashes all these new questions.

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JosephusMillerTime t1_is8xh1v wrote

This sounds like a Police shooting apologist trying to be diplomatic in an overly gunned up, extremely inequitable and racist country.

I'm not saying you are, but if I was looking to explain away something that is not at all good, this is how I'd do it.

This graph doesn't show that police don't kill more people, for that we'd need the x axis per capita of police not general population.

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