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Police shoot woman dead, critically injure man in response to domestic incident (www.stuff.co.nz)
submitted 1 year ago by deadbeef79000 to c/newzealand
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Congratulations NZP you and your guns successfully escalated this situation to as bad as it could possibly get.

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[-] Ilovethebomb 1 points 1 year 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.

[-] BalpeenHammer 4 points 1 year ago

You are very wrong. It's extremely rare for the police to gun down citizens in Europe.

[-] absGeekNZ 1 points 1 year ago

To 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.

[-] BalpeenHammer 2 points 1 year ago

I'd like to see that plotted year over year.

[-] absGeekNZ 2 points 1 year ago

Normalised to population

[-] BalpeenHammer 2 points 1 year ago

Exactly. Also broken down by the parties in government.

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