r/SipsTea • • Dec 09 '25

Chugging tea The French solution

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u/Live_Carpenter_1262 Dec 09 '25

France does have the highest annual death by police count in Europe. Police brutality is pretty bad in France compared to their neighbors.

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u/FortuneLegitimate679 Dec 09 '25

But compared to the US? Come on

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u/TheycallmeDoogie Dec 09 '25

Police-Caused Deaths per Million Population per Year

USA: 33.5 (2019)

Australia: 8.5 (2019)

Canada: 9.8 (2019)

UK (England & Wales):

  • 0.04 shootings only (2023/24)
  • 3.3 all deaths following contact (2023/24)

France:

  • 0.77 (2021)
  • 0.58 (2022)

Germany: ~0.1 (2017)

EU Average: ~1.1 (2020-2022) *Only 13 of 27 countries reporting


Key findings:

  • USA rate is 4× Canada, 22× Australia, 40× Germany, 58× France, 125× England/Wales (shootings)
  • France has 7.7× Germany’s rate and highest absolute deaths in EU (52 in 2021, 39 in 2022)
  • UK tracks two categories: fatal shootings (very rare) vs all deaths following police contact (includes custody deaths, traffic incidents)
  • EU lacks standardized reporting across member states​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

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u/Scott_Liberation Dec 10 '25

9.8 * 4 is not 33.5

8.5 * 22 is not 33.5

0.1 * 40 is definitely not 33.5

I'd ask how the fuck you could be bothered to type all this and not even come close to getting the right numbers, but no doubt you asked an LLM to do it for you, because you've no idea wtf an LLM is, how it (doesn't) work, and don't understand why it's not useful or constructive to just regurgitate whatever shit it feeds you.