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>Perhaps it also helps that cops here are dressed as professionals, with shirts and ties, rather than as paramilitary troopers. 100% it helps! That is how poli
by jimnotgym 3y ago
>Perhaps it also helps that cops here are dressed as professionals, with shirts and ties, rather than as paramilitary troopers.
100% it helps! That is how police were dressed in the UK when I was young. They were known as the 'boys in blue'. Now it is all swat team black. If you dress someone as a soldier and equip them as a soldier, we shouldn't be suprised if they act like one.
- cafard 3y agoOh? 50 years ago, the Lakewood, Colorado, police were called the "blue blazers" because they dressed with jacket and tie. I never heard they were better thought of locally.
- selimthegrim 3y agoI believe this was tried somewhere in California, too
- sprayk 3y agoMenlo Park, green blazers, I believe. I recall a 99% Invisible episode about them.
- jimnotgym 3y agoI'm only 42.... police in the UK got their perpetual guns and SWAT outfits post 'war on terror' iirc. I remember clearly seeing the first 'bobby on the beat' in my home town wearing a stab vest over his white shirt and tie. He had traditional dark blue trousers and shoes (rather than combat boots). It is a rural town. I never heard of a knife crime. We thought it was health and safety nonsense. This would be mid 2000s. I told a policemen friend (non uniform) that i didn't like that they moved someone after to black polo shirts. He said it was because sweat made the colour run from the stab vests into their white shirts...
- suoduandao3 3y agoGiven the off-duty soldiers and off-duty police I've interacted with, I'd prefer a soldier over a police officer any day. I know you mean 'a soldier in enemy territory' but it's worth highlighting.
- FireBeyond 3y agoHah, here the cops get a choice of that black, or a camo-green style uniform that is very Army-eque (not full blown camo, but from not much of a distance you'd assume they were military, not LE). > we shouldn't be suprised if they act like one I'd love it if cops were held to the same rules of engagement as the military. You, as a civilian, are expected to remain calm while LE is aggressive and shouting at you. You, untrained, are expected to remain unafraid with guns pointing at you, but a trained cop can "fear for his life"...