Turns out there's a wikipedia page for US police killed in line of duty. Quite a contrast with a page for UK police killed.
For anyone too lazy to click, US killings of police run about 50 or above, the UK runs about 1 a year.
The context is the culture: US view police as maintaining order against crime in the midst of an armed populace, meaning a focus on conflict and violence, while the UK has a different history. In short, there's not an arms race in the UK, there is in US.
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