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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It’s so highly geographically focused in the US, so it would be helpful to get comparisons not only between countries but also between types of locales. Cities around the globe have “good” & “bad” neighborhoods but not w/ the US baggage & deliberate segregation
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try OECD for international?
urban.org/policy-centers
you could back of envelope refined BLS employment * salaries? plus private security + military...



