Did some rough calculations out of curiosity more than anything.
The US police shoot and kill something like 50+ times more people per year than their Finnish counterparts, relative to population. (It's a really rough estimation. Lot of variation in numbers from the US, and a really low number of incidents in Finland, only 2 since 2000.)
Then again, US police officers are also killed something like 20+ times as often.
Bang bang.
Of course the US is a big country, so the variance is huge.
(For those who wonder, Finland is a top 5 country in firearms per capita.)
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