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By studying the website tracking U.S. police casulties----Offiers Down Memorial Page （http://www.odmp.org/）and its Chinese counterpart----Public Security Heroes and Martyrs（http://app.mps.gov.cn:8088/yinglie/index.jsp）, I found some very stark contrasts between U.S and Chinese cops.
I. For casulties in direct violent confrontation, most U.S. cops were killed by guns, while most Chinese cops were killed by knife (or other cold weapons).
Reason: Chinese government exercises almost the strictest gun control policy in the world. Therefore, there are very few military weapons among the civilians, and thus the best weaponry for the civilian criminals is no better than daggers or kitchen knives.
In the States, however, it is quite another story, with guns abundant among U.S. citizens.
Typically, most U.S. cops killed by non-gun-related violence are usually correction officers, since the inmates attacking them can only use knife, club or even bare fists.
Interestingly, in 1994, Benny Lee Lawson raided the Washington Police, killing two FBI agents and one local police detective. His weapon was a fully automatic MAC-11. The score is 1:3.
Yet, in 2008, Yang Jia from Beijing raided a Shanghai Police building, killing 6 police officers and wounding another 4, as well as a private security guard. His weapon is nothing but a short knife. The score is 1:6.
Why? 1:3 for a gun-toting killer, yet 1:6 for a "knife-toting" one?
The answer is: there is a flip side of the coin----just because China has strict gun control and thus there are few guns in the hands of civilians, the Chinese police also has a very strict gun policy on its own officers.
As a result, the Chinese cops (even including some field officers) are usually not armed.
And the 6 officers killed by a single knife were all totally unarmed, despite the fact that most of them have either a SWAT or patrol background.
Hence there comes the balance: the U.S citizens have guns, so the U.S. cops are well armed. The Chinese citizens have few guns (for those who have, the so called guns are usually shotguns for civilian use or simply primitive guns made out of civilian R&D), so Chinese cops are not well-armed.
And, usually, when it comes to violent confrontation. The odds are usually----U.S cops with guns VS. U.S. criminals with guns, in contrast to Chinese unarmed cops VS. Chinese criminals with knives.
You can justify yourself by saying that American police-criminal fight is more like a gunbattle movie, while Chinese police-criminal fight is more like an ancient martial arts film.
Because I have something else to do, so I just stop here.
I will come back later, with a second topic----why there are fewer detectives casulties in American than in China?
汪若海
I. For casulties in direct violent confrontation, most U.S. cops were killed by guns, while most Chinese cops were killed by knife (or other cold weapons).
Reason: Chinese government exercises almost the strictest gun control policy in the world. Therefore, there are very few military weapons among the civilians, and thus the best weaponry for the civilian criminals is no better than daggers or kitchen knives.
In the States, however, it is quite another story, with guns abundant among U.S. citizens.
Typically, most U.S. cops killed by non-gun-related violence are usually correction officers, since the inmates attacking them can only use knife, club or even bare fists.
Interestingly, in 1994, Benny Lee Lawson raided the Washington Police, killing two FBI agents and one local police detective. His weapon was a fully automatic MAC-11. The score is 1:3.
Yet, in 2008, Yang Jia from Beijing raided a Shanghai Police building, killing 6 police officers and wounding another 4, as well as a private security guard. His weapon is nothing but a short knife. The score is 1:6.
Why? 1:3 for a gun-toting killer, yet 1:6 for a "knife-toting" one?
The answer is: there is a flip side of the coin----just because China has strict gun control and thus there are few guns in the hands of civilians, the Chinese police also has a very strict gun policy on its own officers.
As a result, the Chinese cops (even including some field officers) are usually not armed.
And the 6 officers killed by a single knife were all totally unarmed, despite the fact that most of them have either a SWAT or patrol background.
Hence there comes the balance: the U.S citizens have guns, so the U.S. cops are well armed. The Chinese citizens have few guns (for those who have, the so called guns are usually shotguns for civilian use or simply primitive guns made out of civilian R&D), so Chinese cops are not well-armed.
And, usually, when it comes to violent confrontation. The odds are usually----U.S cops with guns VS. U.S. criminals with guns, in contrast to Chinese unarmed cops VS. Chinese criminals with knives.
You can justify yourself by saying that American police-criminal fight is more like a gunbattle movie, while Chinese police-criminal fight is more like an ancient martial arts film.
Because I have something else to do, so I just stop here.
I will come back later, with a second topic----why there are fewer detectives casulties in American than in China?
汪若海
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