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Originally Posted by Zulu29
I don’t have the exact statistics at this moment but I believe that something like 98% of police/public interactions in Canada result in no force being used at all, how many interactions are there per day? Certainly thousands.
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I can answer this a little bit, since it's something of interest to me that I keep some tabs on.
It's a bit difficult, because I can't/don't track actual 'interactions' of course, but I have some info on 'expected interactions'.
Calgary seems to maintain a rough rate of 1 call/request for service for police every minute. The number has fluctuated a bit over the last 7 years I've been watching it, but for the most part, saying that CPS have to attend 1 call/minute is decently accurate enough. So that'd be around 525,000 interactions/year. And that's just Calgary.
I was asked earlier this year if I knew about the stats for Toronto by a friend who lives there. I did some digging around, and found some news articles that said in the last 5 years, Toronto has averaged 5000 calls/day/year, which would come out to around 3.5 calls/minute. That totals out to 1,825,000 'expected interactions'.
So, between just two of the largest cities in Canada, there are roughly an expected 2,350,000 police/citizen interactions a year, which would be roughly 6,438/day.
Just some rough 'napkin math', if you will.