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These are all from different countries. Just a quick image search. Would a visitor from another planet be entirely wrong to deduce that local regime propaganda

• uhtred 10y ago
  We don't know the context these photos were taken in though. Might have been during riots, or a terrorist alert. I'd personally want the cops to look like that if there was a nutter on the loose with a machine gun.
  • eternalban 10y ago
    Context is a fair point. Interestingly enough, they are all beating the "terrorist" drums at your local regime. > I'd personally want the cops to look like that if there was a nutter on the loose with a machine gun. Here is the point: Physical protection of police personnel does not invariably require 'psychological intimidation' aesthetics. Your "lone nutter" is by your description already nuts and has already crossed the line, so what's the point of dressing up in storm trooper outfits?
• coldtea 10y ago
  >Would a visitor from another planet be entirely wrong to deduce that local regime propaganda aside, all governments have assumed a paramilitarized posture towards their citizens? Yes. Most of those (if not all) are from riots and such loaded scenes. The "shoot first, ask questions later", or the "Send SWAT team because some guy sells marijuana" (or even lesser stuf) is 90% US (and some developing countries).
  • eternalban 10y ago
    > 90% US We forget (given the monkey business of the past 2 decades) that United States is an enabler in terms of what is acceptable. Today US, tomorrow everywhere.
    • B1FF_PSUVM 10y ago
      True. Now in Europe there's police going around with useless combat weapons, in case they need to shoot some poor electrical repair worker by mistake.
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• JadeNB 10y ago
  I don't think that I get the point of the second picture: > http://media.presstv.com/photo/20160323/f17b570b-68b6-4d7d-93b9-176787213a53.jpg http://media.presstv.com/photo/20160323/f17b570b-68b6-4d7d-9... It actually looks pretty unmilitaristic to me. (The others are horrifying.)
  • eternalban 10y ago
    Those are French. Agreed, it is a tame one. Interest here was the universal pattern of white boxed "POLICE" on these uniforms regardless of the nation. They apparently all shop with the same tailor. /g
    • dalke 10y ago
      FWIW, those police appear to be at Charles de Gaulle airport. The OMON are (or rather were) the rough Russian equivalent of a SWAT team. You want the text to be high visibility. One way is with a strong contrast between light and dark. Another way is dark on light. If the uniform is dark - which is typical of jackets - then either the letters need to be light, or there needs to be a box or other shape which is light, with dark letters inside. Here are police with dark jackets, light letters with "POLICE", and no rectangle: http://www.europe-israel.org/2016/09/intifada-en-belgique-une-patrouille-de-police-attaquee-au-couteau-a-molenbeek-par-un-marocain-clandestin/ http://www.europe-israel.org/2016/09/intifada-en-belgique-un... http://www.lemonde.fr/europe/article/2016/06/20/une-cellule-terroriste-planifiait-un-attentat-contre-une-place-du-centre-de-bruxelles_4954094_3214.html http://www.lemonde.fr/europe/article/2016/06/20/une-cellule-... They say "police" because they are in countries where France is a local language, and, quoting https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police_(institution) https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police_(institution) : > Le terme « police » désigne de manière générale l'activité consistant à assurer la sécurité des personnes, des biens et maintenir l'ordre public en faisant appliquer la loi. They also include "Politie", again in light letters on dark. That's because they are Belgian police, and "politie" is what the Flemish population of Belgium uses. At https://www.dreamstime.com/editorial-photo-french-police-control-street-paris-april-april-france-one-most-populated-metropolitanareas-europe-image49874651 https://www.dreamstime.com/editorial-photo-french-police-con... you can see a mix of styles used in France, so that tailor isn't very consistent. Other police prefer a high-visibility jacket, which means they need either dark letters, or a block (or other shape) if they want light letters. Here are some examples with the British police: http://daafeet.com/?p=6956 http://daafeet.com/?p=6956 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/9762516/Our-police-are-being-let-down-by-selfish-agitators.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/9762516... and https://duckduckgo.com/?q=british+police&t=ffsb&iar=images&iax=1&ia=images&iai=http%3A%2F%2Fprevious.presstv.ir%2Fphoto%2F20131115%2F334853_British-police-officer.jpg https://duckduckgo.com/?q=british+police&t=ffsb&iar=images&i... . And here are some German police, who don't use the English/French word "police" on their jackets but rather the German "polizei". Both of these cases use light letters on dark jacket with no rectangle: http://www.liberation.fr/planete/2016/01/08/harcelements-de-masse-a-cologne-18-des-31-suspects-sont-des-demandeurs-d-asile_1425109 http://www.liberation.fr/planete/2016/01/08/harcelements-de-... http://nyheteridag.se/polis-morklagger-asylsokandes-kriminalitet-vill-undvika-hogerextrem-debatt/ http://nyheteridag.se/polis-morklagger-asylsokandes-kriminal... Or in Sweden, with the Swedish word for police, "polis", is in white, on a blue rectangle on high viz yellow: http://www.somaliska.com/booliska-stockholm-oo-joojiyay-ugaarsiga-soo-galootiga/ http://www.somaliska.com/booliska-stockholm-oo-joojiyay-ugaa... and where the underlying jacket doesn't have any word at all http://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/article18116027.ab http://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/article18116027.ab . At the bottom of http://almunecar.se/leva-och-bo/bra%20att%20veta.html http://almunecar.se/leva-och-bo/bra%20att%20veta.html you can see three different uniforms for Spain. Neither the municipal police (http://almunecar.se/onewebmedia/LEV-5.JPG http://almunecar.se/onewebmedia/LEV-5.JPG ) nor the Civil Guard (http://almunecar.se/onewebmedia/Policia%20Guardia%20C.jpg http://almunecar.se/onewebmedia/Policia%20Guardia%20C.jpg ) have text on a rectangle, instead using the entire shirt yoke in a different color as the background. What you showed, therefore, is neither a universal nor anything like your attempted joke about the same tailor.
• jordanb 10y ago
  Your first photo is of paramilitary police in a country fighting a civil war. The second photo does not show any militarism. The third photo is, sadly, from the USA. The fourth photo is from a police state (Russia). I don't know the context of the fifth photo but it looks like it may also be from the USA.
  • brohee 10y ago
    I'm pretty sure the first photo is from Belgium (Police/Politie gives it, as does the P90 SMG). Civil war, are you sure?