"I don't know where the US police falls on that spectrum, though reading US news makes it seem like they do have some serious issues currently. " Well that's t

"I don't know where the US police falls on that spectrum, though reading US news makes it seem like they do have some serious issues currently. " Well that's the problem, isn't it? You read news coverage of the US. The observational bias there is huge. Consider: The US is a country of 320 million. As of Brexit, larger than the EU and homogeneously English speaking with homogeneous press and institutions. The EU is smaller with 23 languages or so and a patchwork of everything. So if a Eastern EU cop beats the shit out of a homosexual in jail who would ever find out? At least in Greece it's pretty well documented that cops sodomized Albanian migrant workers with broomsticks. But you wouldn't know that unless you happen to have an Albanian wife who lived in Greece. An Italian squad of carabinieri was just disbanded because it turned out to be running a drug dealing and extortion racket. This is literally current news. Have you heard about it? Spanish police took COVID as an opportunity to abuse their power. National scandal in Spain, I haven't read any non-Spanish (and I mean Spain Spanish, not Spanish language) news about it. In Hesse police computers were used to find out the personal details of a left-wing politician to send them neo-Nazi affiliated threats. Armed agents of the Germany with neo-Nazi links is quite the scandal today in Germany. Notice the bias in my examples: Spanish police - I'm half Spanish Italian police - I'm half Italian Greek police - My wife is Greek speaking Albanian. German police - I suspect you're German so I specifically googled German police abuse Notice I don't have specific French police abuse examples... because I don't speak French! I'm sure a google search will quickly inform me of Algerians young men beat to a pulp by a gendarme. In general, as EU citizen living in the US for over a decade, I find that the EU perspective of the US couldn't be more wrong. [EDIT] grammer