The US has middling levels of police officers per capita relative to other large countries — 298/100,000.
Some others:
India: 150
South Africa: 345
France: 340
Sweden: 195
Brazil: 211
China: 143
UK: 211
Japan: 234
Germany: 381
Russia: 623
Turkey: 524
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I’d like to see this plotted against per capita $ spending (PPP adjusted) to get a sense of relative militarization levels. Can’t find latter data.
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Looking at this kind of a thing at a country level washes out a lot of detail especially for a country like US where law enforcement is local. Some idea of variation in number/spending over the next lower level of aggregation would be interesting. One could look at ...
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