deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz to Aotearoa / New Zealand@lemmy.nz · 2 months agoPolice shoot woman dead, critically injure man in response to domestic incidentwww.stuff.co.nzexternal-linkmessage-square33fedilinkarrow-up134arrow-down14file-text
arrow-up130arrow-down1external-linkPolice shoot woman dead, critically injure man in response to domestic incidentwww.stuff.co.nzdeadbeef79000@lemmy.nz to Aotearoa / New Zealand@lemmy.nz · 2 months agomessage-square33fedilinkfile-text
Congratulations NZP you and your guns successfully escalated this situation to as bad as it could possibly get.
minus-squareIlovethebomb@lemmy.nzlinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down2·2 months ago I’d expect some standard approach that plans for the scenario of the person turning on police. I very much think the response we saw here would be a standard one across police forces worldwide.
minus-squareBalpeenHammer@lemmy.nzlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·2 months agoYou are very wrong. It’s extremely rare for the police to gun down citizens in Europe.
minus-squareabsGeekNZ@lemmy.nzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months agoTo be fair; it is also extremely rare in NZ. Police figures showed 55 people had been shot dead by an officer between 1916 and the end of the last year - and just one of those who died was a woman. 55 in 108 years; that is just over 0.5 per year.
minus-squareBalpeenHammer@lemmy.nzlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 months agoI’d like to see that plotted year over year.
minus-squareBalpeenHammer@lemmy.nzlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 months agoExactly. Also broken down by the parties in government.
I very much think the response we saw here would be a standard one across police forces worldwide.
You are very wrong. It’s extremely rare for the police to gun down citizens in Europe.
To be fair; it is also extremely rare in NZ.
55 in 108 years; that is just over 0.5 per year.
I’d like to see that plotted year over year.
Normalised to population
Exactly. Also broken down by the parties in government.