Analysis: Canadian police are often accused of using excessive force, but a U.S. officer is five times more likely than a Canadian cop to shoot and kill.
A study by B.C. criminologists show that U.S. police shoot and kill roughly 1,000 individuals each year, while Canadian police fatally shoot fewer than 30 people annually.
The main reason for the relative safety surrounding Canadian police officers is the U.S. has a much more violent culture, according to a study by Rick Parent, a former RCMP officer and associate professor emeritus at Simon Fraser University, and co-researcher Catherine Parent. “Canadian police do make mistakes. There have been questionable incidents in Canada,” Parent acknowledged. “It’s not a perfect environment in Canada. But it is relatively safe.”
“This seems to create a heightened sense of danger for U.S. police,” Parent said. “They are always ‘on guard’ and ‘loaded’.”into how a rampaging man armed with four weapons killed an officer and 21 others in 2020, before being shot himself, exemplifies just how unusual such incidents are in Canada.Article content“Pepper spray often doesn’t work,” he said. The Nova Scotia massacre, in which Const.
There are more than 18,000 different police agencies across 50 U.S. states, with fragmented standards and protocols, say the Parents. That compares to just 200 police agencies in Canada, all of which offer similar training.
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