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red2play t1_iwc4m7o wrote

We poo-poo the police telling them to not do chases nor pull over anyone acting strange (not to mention de-funding them) but on the other hand, you see things like this. I'd rather have the police than not having them.

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davidreiss666 t1_iwcibwy wrote

All the people out here who "poo-poo the police" as your phrase it really like good police officers who police well. The problem are the idiotic police who purposely fuck it all up in order to act like a real-man or something stupid like that.

In the United States, we pay more for police forces to do poor jobs policing the people. All so the police themselves can get paid less than police in similar nations.

In the US they pay for expensive equipment like riot gear, tanks, airplanes that can literally drop bombs on the populace, etc. While the police here get very little training in comparison to those in other countries similar to the United States. The average police officer gets just 26 weeks of training in the USA. While the average police office in Germany gets 120 weeks of training. They literally spending more time on how to properly de-escalate violate encounters in Germany than American police get in ALL their training. And the resulting German police officers gets paid more on average than American police get paid.

So, not only do the department budgets spend less money on policing in Western Europe, they also pay their office-forces more money to be police. So, the officers feel better cause they are more highly paid in Western Europe, and they get more training. So the results are better in that they have fewer violent encounters with the average citizens. Which means the police there are just all around safer.

But it means that police are monitored and expected to not become violent thugs who just beat people for shits and giggles. So, the American police don't want to get paid more or get more training. They like a system that allows for them to go insane and just beat the shit out of old grandmothers because they think the 89 year old lady disrespected them. That's the fucked up American police culture we live under.

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iRideyoshies t1_iwcjqft wrote

lol imagine missing the point this hard. Do you really think people don't want the police to stop drunk drivers? No one demanding police reform wants them to stop doing that. What an idiotic comment.

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