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As a European, this just reinforces my belief that South Park is a documentary, not a comic extrapolation of reality... :/ I mean.. to begin with, what can the
by johansch 11y ago
As a European, this just reinforces my belief that South Park is a documentary, not a comic extrapolation of reality... :/
I mean.. to begin with, what can they accomplish with 6 cars with 2 cops each that they can't with a third of that force?
Not to start with how much more complicated it must be to coordinate 12 cops compared to 4.
From a foreign perspective: Americans always seem to try brute force, as opposed to something balanced.
My theory: We get better police officers in Scandinavia since it's not a low-paid job here, relatively speaking. It's not a way of the local power-hungry losers to get the positions of power they crave. I know few local and young police officers here; it's my honest assessment that none of them went into this line of work because they craved power.
- xlm1717 11y agoI don't think it's so much try brute force as it is "use it or lose it". This thinking is pervasive throughout all levels of government in the US. Let's say the police do decide to send three cop cars instead of six, and do so consistently. When it comes time to request budget money, the people in charge of handing out that money can say, "well you don't really need as much funding since so many of your cops are sitting idle at a given time."
- johansch 11y agoSo people are dying (because of overblown, badly coordinated) police efforts and the reason is the way funds are allocated in the US? That makes me even sadder. Sounds plausible though.