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Yeah, I was hesitating whether to write most. The thing is though, even those non-free states are not as brutal on policing as the US.
by zzzcpan 8y ago
Yeah, I was hesitating whether to write most. The thing is though, even those non-free states are not as brutal on policing as the US.
- coolspot 8y agoAs someone who lived in Russia first 23 years and now living in US, I can not agree. US has one of the lowest ratios of police force per capita - 284 officers per 100k citizens [1]. Compare to Belarus - 1442 per 100k citizens and Russia’s 515 per 100k. [1] - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_dependencies_by_number_of_police_officers https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_depend...
- aplummer 8y agoI mean, I don’t know how many police New Zealand has per capita (I think regarded as the most “free” country) however isn’t it more the application of force than the quantity of police? If they are all directing traffic it’s not a police state.
- hippich 8y agoThey are there to protect the state from the population. Since population doesn't have much means to harm the state, hence police are acting more "mildly", but no way they are doing traffic regulation mostly (in fact I can count on fingers of one hand seeing cops regulating traffic in Belarus)