| As of 2020, the US population is ~327000000.
The UK population is 63000000
[Source: Wikipedia] Now, do some division.
That's ~1 assault on a LEO per 2990 people in the US
and ~1 assault on a LEO per 2100 people in the UK. So assaults on LEO per capita are 26% greater in the UK. Of course, it is also important to look at the number of LEOs in each state (in the sense of country, not US state). From [0] there are ~686000 LEO in the US, or 1 per 479 people.
From [1], there are ~123000 LEO in the UK, or 1 per 512 people. So there are 6% fewer LEO per capita in the UK than the US, but the assaults on LEOs happen 26% more often per capita. So how is it more dangerous in the US again? [Edit: forgot sources! my bad.] [0] https://www.statista.com/statistics/191694/number-of-law-enf...
Actually, https://www.bls.gov/ooh/protective-service/police-and-detect... suggests 808,000 LEO in the US, which makes the per-capita LEO even higher in the US. Population data is hard. [1] https://fullfact.org/crime/police-numbers/ |