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[–]Jesus-Christ 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Police in the UK are the biggest goon squad of Europe, so many instances where I've seen like 10 policeman try to control one person. They're hopeless. One guy has a screw loose or a weapon and they're literally fucked. They literally get bullied.

[–]jet199 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

They have a technique where they all hold a limb and the head so the guy doesn't hurt himself hitting the floor. But people still see it and see 10 police on one man - obviously must be police brutality.

[–]GConly 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

In the UK we have a very low rate of police dying on the job, and a very low rate of DIC (deaths in custody) compared to America. We can literally have years go by with no cops dying on the job. We've had oonly about 250 die since 1900. Adjusting for officer numbers its about 10 times higher in America.

[–]jet199 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I had one ex UK cop tell me that he was against being armed because US police are more likely to be shot and killed by a crazy and stupid colleague than by a criminal.