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As a citizen of a civilized country with properly funded and educated emergency services, it's baffling to me that the US faces these relatively simple problems
by 8372049 2y ago
As a citizen of a civilized country with properly funded and educated emergency services, it's baffling to me that the US faces these relatively simple problems. In my country, a police patrol would respond along with the ambulance. The three officers would restrain the person if necessary. Since there are three of them in a patrol car, since they have proper equipment (and don't carry firearms) and proper training, they don't have to hurt anyone to restrain the person and let the medics do their jobs.
- DamnYuppie 2y agoHow big is your country? How diverse is its population? These things matter.
- micromacrofoot 2y agowhat role does diversity play
- stavros 2y agoIt masks the class problems of extreme wealth inequality as racial problems so that potential solutions focus on the wrong thing, and the targets are middle-class white people instead of ultra-rich people of any race.
- micromacrofoot 2y agoso in the US middle class white people are seen as the problem instead of ultra rich minorities?
- stavros 2y agoNotice how you fell into the race trap again, even though I said "of any race". It's not "the ultra rich minorities", it's "the ultra rich, period". Race doesn't have anything to do with what is 100% a class problem. I think it's telling of how pernicious the racial propaganda is, that you changed my "of any race" to "minorities".
- micromacrofoot 2y agoOh I see maybe just “the ultra rich” without “of any race” - saying “white people” then “of any race” as the counter example implies non-white, still too much race emphasis (plus most of the ultra rich are white, which further confused it for me)
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- 8372049 2y agoBy all means tell me why you think they matter. It's still a matter of funding-per-capita. Stopping someone with a knife is the same regardless of their ethnicity. (We do have a lot of immigration, but I don't see the relevance.)
- tuatoru 2y agoYes, the USA is significantly under-policed compared to other OECD countries. Defund the police? How about multiplying by ten.
- robocat 2y agoUSA 240 police per million: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_dependencies_by_number_of_police_officers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_dependen...
- defrost 2y agoI read that as 243 per 100,000 Ballpark, but under Australia's 264 per 100,000, more than England and Wales at 227 per 100,000 and less than Scotland at 318 per 100,000.
- robocat 2y agoAhhhh, sorry. The numbers are quite variable between different countries. I presume partly because the definition or role varies?
- defrost 2y agoI deal with numbers and I see those (England, Wales, Australia, USofA) as "ballpark" close to each other .. relative to 170+ other countries about the globe. The UK and Australia have similiar policing roles and behaviours, quite different to the US - more uniform within the countries, significantly less use of guns and force, etc.
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