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Police shoot woman dead, critically injure man in response to domestic incident (www.stuff.co.nz)

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Congratulations NZP you and your guns successfully escalated this situation to as bad as it could possibly get.

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[–] absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

To be fair; it is also extremely rare in NZ.

Police figures showed 55 people had been shot dead by an officer between 1916 and the end of the last year - and just one of those who died was a woman.

55 in 108 years; that is just over 0.5 per year.

[–] BalpeenHammer@lemmy.nz 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'd like to see that plotted year over year.

[–] absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Normalised to population

[–] BalpeenHammer@lemmy.nz 2 points 1 day ago

Exactly. Also broken down by the parties in government.