People make the same mistake about police violence they do about healthcare expenditures. They think the US is an outlier, which it probably isn't when you look at it the right way, so they delude themselves into believing a different set of policies would make a huge difference. https://twitter.com/Mrjjrocks/status/1274664636047142913

To be clear, I'm not saying different law enforcement policies would make *no* difference, I'm saying those policies are largely endogenous and in particular depend on the level of violence in society, so there are constraints to how much they can realistically be changed.

Sure, if you disarmed cops in the US, the police killing rate would no doubt fall dramatically. But it's never going to happen, because it's not realistic in a country like the US, where there is so much violence. You can't police e. g. St. Louis in the same way as London.