Interesting graphs and charts department

xoxoxoBruce · 01-11-2019, 12:04 PM

Looks like Google Earth is Mercator.

glatt · 01-11-2019, 04:04 PM

depends on where you are looking from.
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xoxoxoBruce · 01-11-2019, 11:58 PM

The skeptical libertarian thinks we have too many prisons and not enough cops.

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The US and EU both spend about 1.2% of GDP on police and prisons, but while the EU spends about 5 to 1 in favor of police, the US spends just 1.5 to 1.
As a share of GDP, the EU spends 33% more than the US on police and 60% less on prisons.
In the US, the ratio has shifted significantly over time to favor more prison. Prior to the late 1970s, when incarceration rates started to take off around the country, the US consistently spent about 3 to 1 on police.
Comparing individual US states and EU members shows that the averages aren’t being skewed by outliers. Only one US state had a higher police-to-prison ratio than any European country.

Griff · 01-12-2019, 08:49 AM

We'd have to convince our police to be more like public servants and less paramilitary. Is that even possible?

Gravdigr · 01-12-2019, 01:45 PM

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Originally Posted by Griff

We'd have to convince our police to be more like public servants and less paramilitary. Is that even possible?

Not with all them military surplus toys they got. It'll never happen.

Griff · 01-13-2019, 03:44 PM

I assume they feel outnumbered and out gunned, if we fixed the out numbered we'd still be left with the outgunned problem...

sexobon · 01-13-2019, 04:13 PM

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Originally Posted by Griff

I assume they feel outnumbered and out gunned, if we fixed the out numbered we'd still be left with the outgunned problem...

01-11-2019, 12:04 PM	#1
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Looks like Google Earth is Mercator. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

01-12-2019, 08:49 AM	#4
Griff still says videotape Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 26,813	We'd have to convince our police to be more like public servants and less paramilitary. Is that even possible? __________________ If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis D. Brandeis

01-13-2019, 03:44 PM	#6
Griff still says videotape Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 26,813	I assume they feel outnumbered and out gunned, if we fixed the out numbered we'd still be left with the outgunned problem... __________________ If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis D. Brandeis

01-11-2019, 04:04 PM	#2
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