this bit is interesting: What is included in The Counted?
Any deaths arising directly from encounters with law enforcement. This will inevitably include, but will likely not be limited to, people who were shot, tasered and struck by police vehicles as well those who died in police custody.
Using that logic, NZ is a very very sick country as well. How many ppl die in police custody in NZ each year? I think we would be almost on a par (as a % of population) as the US.