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I feel like, in general, in most countries around the world, the police are bad people and not trustworthy. I have little respect for the police, and usually ab
by kenneth 6y ago
I feel like, in general, in most countries around the world, the police are bad people and not trustworthy. I have little respect for the police, and usually abide by a personal policy of avoiding them, and refusing to cooperate whenever possible.
In my one run-in with the police in the bay area, after I was mugged at gunpoint and called the police immediately after, they were entirely unreliable and unhelpful. They refused to go after the perpetrators despite having a clear opportunity to at the time.
In many countries, the police is corrupt, harassing civilians to extort them into giving bribes. In Indonesia, planting drugs during a stop to extort money out of tourists is a well known scam. A drivers license check is never passed without a bribe (amounting to the entire contents of your wallet).
In Hong Kong, where I live now, the police has a history of brutally repressing peaceful protests, including the shooting of unarmed civilians, and the cover-up of multiple rapes and murders perpetrated by policemen.
Oftentimes, even when they are not outrightly criminal, the police is there to enforce awful laws that infringe on people's basic human rights.
Fuck the police.
- alharith 6y agoThe “I had a bad experience therefore we must burn the whole system down” line of reasoning is a sign of immaturity. Police serve a vital role in many communities in the US. For every bad story that catches headlines there are hundreds more good acts that go unnoticed. The US is very different than a brutalist authoritarian regime, even with a wanna-be authoritarian in the White House.
- mseidl 6y agoI live in Germany and in 2015 our police, for the whole year, in the whole country only fired 88 bullets. Germans go through 3 years of training and have a lot of training on non-violent/lethal deescalation. I also used to live in the US, and the cops there are nuts. Jon Oliver did a good video on accountability: https://youtu.be/zaD84DTGULo https://youtu.be/zaD84DTGULo
- mschuster91 6y agoWe Germans aren't perfect either, not a single cop got prosecuted for the police violence at G20, and we routinely get scandals for Nazi cops or a lack of accountability...
- searchableguy 6y agoThere are still real nazis?
- Veen 6y agoIt depends how you define Nazi, but yes, there are still real Nazis in Germany: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-51961069 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-51961069
- mseidl 6y agoI am aware of issues our police have. But I'd take Germany over the US any day of the week. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/fbi-white-supremacists-in-law-enforcement https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/fbi-white-supremacists-i... There are a lots of issues with race and police in the US also.
- viklove 6y agoAs long as you feel better than someone
- dependenttypes 6y agohttps://www.ccc.de/en/updates/2018/hausdurchsuchungen-bei-vereinsvorstanden-der-zwiebelfreunde-und-im-openlab-augsburg https://www.ccc.de/en/updates/2018/hausdurchsuchungen-bei-ve...
- bodono 6y agoCurious you went all the way back to 2015. Why not go further back to 1940? German police weren't looking too good then. We can all cherry pick data, but often what's left out says more.
- sneak 6y agohttps://www.theverge.com/2019/3/13/18253848/eric-garner-footage-ramsey-orta-police-brutality-killing-safety https://www.theverge.com/2019/3/13/18253848/eric-garner-foot...
- dntbnmpls 6y ago> I feel like, in general, in most countries around the world, the police are bad people and not trustworthy. In every country. All police exist to protect the state by maintaining order. They do not exist to serve or protect you. Quite the opposite. This is true everywhere, including "paradises" like sweden or norway. The police is there to "protect and serve" just like google is there to "do no evil".
- tluyben2 6y agoSure, but in some countries they are more sadistic and triggerhappy than in other countries. Seems that some cultures have more of the 'uniform is power' mental defect. The Dutch police you can practically spit on and they won't lose their cool; in Spain you will be beaten to a pulp for that. I prefer the Dutch way, a lot. No need for aggressive angry hot-heads in uniforms with sticks, tasers and guns.