Police Killings per Capita v Homicide Rate per Capita for Select OECD Countries [OC]Submitted by dr5c t3_y350kf in dataisbeautiful
pk10534 t1_is7auwq wrote
Reply to comment by thebestoflimes in Police Killings per Capita v Homicide Rate per Capita for Select OECD Countries [OC] by dr5c
I don’t dispute any of that, my point was solely that it doesn’t make any more sense to compare the US to Lichtenstein or Denmark than it does to compare the US to Brazil. Wealth shouldn’t be the only factor we look at.
For instance: Mexico is a high income economy who also broke away from a European power and is a democratic, free market nation. Mexico’s GNI is actually closer to Spain’s than Spain’s is to the US. If it’s fair game to compare spain to the US (which has a GNI $40,000 dollars higher than spain), why is it not for Mexico?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GNI_(nominal)_per_capita
RambunctiousRabbi t1_isaq9x2 wrote
Youre wayyyy too smart yo be arguing this on Reddit.
But you’re 100% correct in my eyes
Chris-1235 t1_is7xoch wrote
Agreed, look at HDI, it's a much better metric that shows the difference between developed and developimg nations https://hdr.undp.org/data-center/country-insights#/ranks
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