I wonder what's the difference between countries that makes the police behave so differently as to citizens having to come up with video surveillance to back up their case?
In Scandinavia you'd have to be genuinely paranoid to not trust the police. The presence of police generally has an aura of safety: actually, with the reductions in force we've been quite unhappy to not see officers patrolling in the city centre in the evenings as much as before.
I'll have to assume that most cops in the US must be friendly and considerate but there seems to exist a minority (hopefully?) that seems to suggest it might be safer to hang out with criminals rather than be confronted by the police.
It's somehow mind-boggling but there must be a path of history and reason why the behaviour of the police forces have diverged so much between countries.
In Scandinavia you'd have to be genuinely paranoid to not trust the police. The presence of police generally has an aura of safety: actually, with the reductions in force we've been quite unhappy to not see officers patrolling in the city centre in the evenings as much as before.
I'll have to assume that most cops in the US must be friendly and considerate but there seems to exist a minority (hopefully?) that seems to suggest it might be safer to hang out with criminals rather than be confronted by the police.
It's somehow mind-boggling but there must be a path of history and reason why the behaviour of the police forces have diverged so much between countries.