This Country's Police Have Only Killed a Single Person in 71 Years

Iceland police have only killed a single person in the country’s entire 71-year existence. You may say, “Well that’s an unfair comparison, Iceland only has around 300,000 people, we have 300 million.” And that’s true. So compare it to a place in the United States of a similar size: Stockton, California, where police killed 3 people in the first 5 months of 2015.

The Guardian breaks down more of these killings, but the basic gist of it is this: police in the United States are killing way more people than the police of other countries. And while this is undoubtedly a complicated issue, it does raise the question: are these deaths the necessary cost of living in a safe society? Or is there another way?

h/t: Vox.