Today, the U.S. collectively spends $100 billion a year on policing and a further $80 billion on incarceration.
Just the spending on policing is larger than what other countries spend on military. Actually, the only country that spends more on military is China [1], after taking in incarceration costs, it is 2.5 times the military expenditure of India.
Ay, I did miss that, didn't go up enough to see the parent :facepalm:
China do spend more on defense than policing, at lease nominally, per page 5 of the 2021 budget proposal hosted on Xinhua:
"National defense spending was 1.267992 trillion yuan, 100% of the budgeted figure.
Public security expenses totaled 183.59 billion yuan, 100.2% of the budgeted figure. "
Today, the U.S. collectively spends $100 billion a year on policing and a further $80 billion on incarceration.
Just the spending on policing is larger than what other countries spend on military. Actually, the only country that spends more on military is China [1], after taking in incarceration costs, it is 2.5 times the military expenditure of India.
[1] https://www.sipri.org/publications/2021/sipri-fact-sheets/tr...