What's more insane is many people don't even know that, and since so few people vote in local elections, incumbent sheriffs almost always win unless there's some controversy that grabs high profile media attention.
That's how it should be. It means the community elects them. That's how a republic works. It's the same reason we have a jury, representatives, a president. The problem is qualified immunity, lack of training, the mindset in general.
Qualified Immunity doesn't apply in the UK. Would you believe that in 2020 a police officer accused of trying to buy a £9.95 box of doughnuts for seven pence by sticking on a cheaper barcode has been sacked for gross misconduct. I thought it was only US cops that lived on doughnuts.
I lived in Virginia for 31 years. Walked my dog daily, went to the many shopping malls, grocery stores, restaurants never felt unsafe. Almost everyone drives.There is no public transport outside of the cities. It's like most Cities in other countries, safe and unsafe areas. We lived in a beautiful suburban area. I drove everyday into Washington DC for work. Drove home, no problem. Yes there is a lot of shootings and police brutality, which is totally unacceptable but I never saw any of it. Fortunately.
BE VERY AFRAID - The last thing you want is to even look at a US police person. It can cost you your life and the population will defend the cops. BE AFRAID!
Fifty hours a week, for nine months for five years--for a painting decorator qualification. They gave me a psycho-aptitude test when I applied for the restorers' course. Then 5 years of apprenticeship and still studying to keep up with the technologies. And to think that in less than 5 months in the U.S. I could have become a policeman! My father was also a carabiniere!!!
@@JWildberry Yes there are some distorted people working as a police. They are accountable and not above the law or anyone else. Misuse of power or excessive force can have a heavy impact on that person.
Thanks for the tips but a person shouldn't need to be taught to de-escalate an encounter with a cop. That's the officer's actual job. At this point, I simply choose not to go back again to the USA at all. Which is a shame. I met some wonderful, friendly people the one time I visited some ten years ago
Three years to become a Police Constable/NCO in Greece, Four years a Commissioned Officer. During their academic years (which includes Law, Psychology and Social Sciences) trainees undergo a field training also as Candidate Police Constables/Officers. Police School here is a tertiary education institution i.e. University level
@@claudiakarl7888 Unfortunately though there are many who would, do, make excellent police officers (albeit it at constable level) but who don't have the ability to make it to university level. Turning the police into simply another career only for the academically inclined and capable often rules out many who are excellent at dealing with the public and would be happy to stay in the lower ranks doing just that.
@@musicandbooklover-p2o It differs a bit from federal state to state, but in Northrine Westfalia it’s necessary to have a school degree that allows you to make a bachelor study.
If I remember correctly Castile had his gun in the glove compartment next to his papers. That's why he told the officer in advance. 🤔 (Yes, those incidents reach all the way to Europe because we simply can't fathom how, just...how?!?)
647 hours are 26 days. Considering they sleep and work normal shifts it’s probably 3 months of training . Where I live it’s 3 YEARS plus very strict psychological and physical test.
The last Police representative I saw was Policewoman, who popped into our Knit and Natter club, a few months ago, she had a cup of tea and a chat with us.from the UK.😊
When I first heard about how short the police training in the US is I thought there must have been a mistake in the text. Like this can't actually be true right? How on earth is someone supposed to learn all the important stuff an officer needs to know, learn how to handle different situations etc in such a short time? In my opinion 3 years should be the very minimum and of course a high school diploma, no extremist political views, psychological testing and whatever is needed to determine whether they are fit to serve. Oh and immunity is a NO GO. There's so much wrong with US Law enforcement, you'd have to change the entire system...
Too many criminals there, especially now when all police officers are demonised and nobody wants to even be one, so people go into private security for better pay and respect.
@@RyuSaarva And the reason why there are too many criminals is the bad quality of life in poor communities. And the fact that the prison system dont rehabilitate them. In prison the criminals only get worse. And thats what they want because most of the prisons are for profit. And all of that is wrong in the first place. Poor people should have support so they dont need to resort to crime. And mentaly ill or sick people in general should get the help they need. And the prisons should NOT be private and for profit. But yeah i dont see those things changing in the US any time soon and its sad. If there was less sick or desperate people there would be no need for trigger happy cops. Fortunately i live in Sweden and the cops are really nice here. Once i was passed out in some apartment building hallway. Some person that lived there called the cops on me. They woke me up asked few questions. I answered the questions and they hauled my drunken ass home and thats it. In the US i would have found my self in a jail cell most likely hehe.
It is interesting and frightening for me at the same time that you know the rules of conduct for dealing with police officers and have the feeling that you have to pass them on. Another reason for me not to understand the hype about living in the USA! I'm always happy to live in Germany.
Times the Finnish police has killed a person in the 2000's: 2000: An officer shot a mentally unstable man who escaped an ambulance and was threating them with a machete. 2009: During a siege on an apartment, the police shot an armed man who had threatened to kill another person in the apartment. 2010: A prison guard was killed when an officer accidentally fired his weapon. 2012: An officer repeatedly tazed a man who would not calm down in his cell. The cause of death is a bit unclear. 2015: An officer shot a man who attacked them with an axe while they were assaulting the mans apartment. 2016: Police shot a man who attacked them with an airsoft -gun. The man had stabbed another person, and was resisting arrest when he pulled out the gun. 2016: An apparently suicidal and armed man tried to break out of a siege and was shot. 2018: The police shot a man who shot at them from a car. 2021: The police were searching an apartment, when they were shot at. They answered fire and the assaulter later died of his wounds. That's it.
Looking at the figures for Australia, we have been averaging just under 6 Police shooting deaths a year since 1989/90, until 2019/20 (our figures follow our financial year, which starts on 1 July) when there were 16. Since 2010, 5 Police have died through the actions of armed offenders. The most recent case in Sydney was a domestic dispute (mother and adult son). The guy was apparently armed with a knife, but we will have to await the outcome of the investigation to see if there are any adverse findings and recommendations with regards to the Police actions.
@pegamini Oh man, that's rly sad. I'm from germany our cops are also rly chilled most of the time. Is it possible that us cops are that way b.c. they allways have to think that someone is armed? Don't get me wrong, with that many guns in the us, i think a gunban would not be a good option but i think it's a reason.
I'm careful with how hot the asphalt is when walking my dogs in Summer over here in Sweden, and your police makes people lie down on hot Summer asphalt. So basically, I treat my dogs with more respect, than your police treats their citizens.
We do the same. We can get very hot summer days here in the South of England. We change our routine so that our dogs don’t walk on hot tarmac. Imagine having your face pushed into it by a bunch of big men for EIGHT minutes. In over 100 degrees!
So true,Finnish. I'm an american,some cities here are over-run with gangs,drugs,etc,etc,...we have concealled gun carry and people have open carry,guns on hips.Like the old west !!! LOL. Some americans are very agressive,ready to fight/shoot someone at the drop of a hat !!! LOL. There's active shooters causing chaos,A lot of racism here also. Especially against black,american citizens,just telling it like it is. This is a very,violent country. LOL.
@@Whippy99 Whippy99,there's a video of a dog attacking/biting a cop,who didn't want to shoot the dog,but cops here will shoot an unarmed,black man/teen with a swiftness. There's an older video showing a cop shoot a fleeing,unarmed blackman 8 times !!! 8 times !!! Then the cop drops his taser near the body,saying the guy was trying to take his taser from him.But,the corrupt cop didn't know he was being video-taped. Some of these cops are racist toward black,citizens or racially profile them. America was once a great country(a long time ago) I used to be proud to be an american-NOT ANYMORE !!! There's sooo much mess going on now,who would/could be proud of it ???!!!
As an American, I’m already aware of all these police horrors without accountability, but it’s still shocking to see cops from around the world be astonished and disgusted seeing these incidents, too. I wish we would be called out more on a world stage and shamed into cleaning up our act and doing better.
Some years ago during a 7 year stint with what was then the NZ traffic dept (traffic police, now integrated with the national police service) we had a visit from some officer's from a US equivalent organisation on a cross-over exchange. I spent a few days with one of the visitors while he visited our small-town office. He found it unbelievable that we did not carry guns, nor, at that time, did we have battons, despite the fact that we would be on the road at night with only a radio for back up and that was sometimes nearly an hour away Arrests were made with minimal problems if you treated the contact with respect. Those who got trouble tended to have a bit of a reputation for agressivemess. In addition we prided ourselves on "killing our own snakes", as we knew that the reputation of all depended on the few if an officer was overstepping the line on operation or behaviour, first there would be effort by Peerd to assist him get back on board but if this failed he would get little sympathy and no cover when the balloon went up and he was cought out.
No matter the crime, you shouldn't murder anyone. The right to a fair trial is a right! There is *no* situation at all where you should sit on anyones neck. That is murder. It's not even manslaughter, it's outright murder.
Yeah, it was disgusting and I don't understand why people defend it, albeit I don't understand the point of portraying Floyd as a hero or martyr either. He was a victim but also a criminal, but that does never warrant what was put under, I just don't think people should look up to him.
Steamboat Willie That reminds me of that scene in Dirty Harry, when he tries to take information from the murderer/abducter after shooting him in a leg to stop him. The dude couldn't stop crying about his right. In real life, guys like that murderer in that movie... do they really deserve a right, when they deny others the right to live and not be harmed?
what on god's earth has happened to America, why has it become such a polarised money hungry country, what in earth has happened to democracy and the so called American Dream that's only obtainable if you walk all over everyone and everything has to have a price and not a right...it's the least free country in the west that survives by being land of the fee than than the free...it's depressing and so sad 😢
I hope that you live in some _Civilized_ Country, as it seems you have been indoctrinated with the "Brand" that is America (U.S.). When you start by saying "What happened to America...", it is abundantly obvious that you haven't the foggiest clue of the historical reality that is the USA. You (probably) have accepted the American marketing lie, likely through media, that America is somehow is ... *or was* "Great", and full of opportunity for All. It's not. And never was. You probably didn't know that ALL American law enforcement started from "Slave Patrols"? Yep. When a Slave escaped, the Locals/State(s) employed officers (officers = just a untrained mob of white men...just like today for the most part) to hunt down these people like animals. Here's another FACT you are most likely ignorant about: In the United States Constitution, as of this very second, it states that *SLAVERY IS LEGAL.* SLAVERY is _Constitutionally protected_ right now. Here's something else you are likely ignorant to; Indigenous/Native American tribal peoples, to this very moment, _Own NO Land._ almost 40% of remaining Indigenous/Native American tribal peoples live without running water. These humans, post _GENOCIDE,_ are relegated to "Reservations." They, again by LAW, are forbidden to OWN these lands. These lands are "held in trust" by the US Government to this very nanosecond. When you say "Why has [America] become...and what happened to democracy", you have bought into the brand fairytale. Like you may own an iPhone, And expensive gadget that is "branded" (marketed) as something special, when in reality it is a total ripoff. America has never been a _Civilized_ nation. Or a Democratic nation. Ever. I could go on and on trying to educate you, and I mean no disrespect, but it would better if you attempt to educate yourself, perhaps start here: Read the 13th Amendment to the US Constitution (and try and think very hard on what the word "EXCEPT" means) Search youtube for "The Quartering of Troops | Police Militarization"
I am not a usa citizen, so i apologize if i sound judgemental. I cannot judge because i know very little of your country. But from the outside, the usa look like a third world country. No working rights, no health rights, no social safety. And people brainwashed to think they live in the best place on hearth. It feels like a mix between Sudan (decades of war and poverty ) and North Korea (people there think they are in the best place)
It never ceases to amaze me how a nation which prides itself on its right to bear arms are so dumbfounded that their police force would react in such an over the top way when confronting potentially armed citizens. They just want to get home from their day's work alive, FFS. You got the police service that you deserve by demanding that right!
@@kjellcarlsson5639 but their 2nd amendment has lost its original meaning. “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed. *Militia meaning militia - civilians trained as soldiers but not part of the regular army. reserves. military force, military group, military unit, force - a unit that is part of some military service; " Their neighbours, shop keepers or average people aren’t militia
@@kjellcarlsson5639 I don’t know any of that for sure, I’m Australian and have done a quite bit of reading on it and I’m more curious than anything. I read somewhere how many times the 2nd amendment has been changed. But looking things up on google is definitely no proof at all. I found what I wrote after reading the same things on many different sites - so the foundations are there, but you’d have to read original official documents to get the exact truth. But the Militia info I checked on a few sites. I never believe what I first read, but been browsing for a few months. IF it’s true, the average person shouldn’t, by law I guess, be carrying a weapon.
In Finland you need to study/train for three years to become a police officer. It's basically a bachelor degree. Finnish police carries firearms but getting it of the belt is very rare. I think as a whole Finnish police force threats with a gun about 100 times a year and shoots about 5 times a year. That's all Finnish cops combined. And total of 10 people have died because of polices actions after year 2000. Also in Finland the fact that someone is actually shooting AT police does not give any automatic right to police to shoot back. If there's any other alternative then police is not allowed to shoot. And when police officer shoots an investigation is always initiated to check if in fact the police had right to shoot in that particular case.
Likewise here. Also the responce from the Police officer has to be analogous to the threat e.g. it's unacceptable here, a police officer to shoot to kill someone who's unstable (for psychopathological reasons or due to drug abbuse) and is brandishing a knife. The primary responsibility of the police officer has to be to defuse the situation and capture the person alive and -if possible- unharmed
@@apmoy70 Exactly, that's what we should expect in civilized countries! like we have had one terrorist knife attack here and police shot one bullet - in the leg of attacker. They handcuffed him and one cop started to treat the wound while others started to defend the attacker from the mob which was chasing him before cops got there....
If Finnish police are fired at, they can't shoot back?? How are they supposed to realistically, feasibly stop the threat the shooter poses to themselves and to any bystander?
The fact that you know how to act if you have a firearm in your car and how to avoid getting shot is saying alot. Also i get that a police man have fear of being shot but that does not mean they should sit on peoples necks or any part of them. They need to be aware of the person they handcuffing and how he/she really feel and if something really is wrong. If he/she is saying he can't breath then you check that and change position to make sure they are not dying. I mean just thinking that i might die in a interaction with a police i don't even know how to feel about that.
A lot of TH-camrs from the USA explain the best way to interact with police in order not to be killed. Like they are dealing with mafia or dangerous mob, ready to kill. It is insane. In both my country of origin and my country of adoption, I call the police when I want to feel safe. Not the other way around
But also what is with these people that are having guns with them and are willing to shot Police Officers and maybe kill a person. I'd say having a gun is one thing but the motivation to use it is an other.
@@albin2232 th-cam.com/video/pBekdnGWAcs/w-d-xo.html this video showing Swedish police in New York and how they deal with an issues happening during their vacation. A bit different imo.
Here in Germany, seeing the police makes you feel safe. If you are in another city and you need directions you can ask them. No Problem. In the US you teach children in school how to avoid the be murdered by the police. This is so sad. I remember one case in Germany, a video, a officer shot a man, and killed him sadly. The man had a knife and was clearly not stable. the officer told him. multible times, to put the knife down. He run towards her, with the knife up. And only when he was like 4 steps away, she shot. that case made news. the police is trained to de-escalate, to use force only if necessary, and deadly force only in immediate danger of death or great bodily harm. like it should be. Also, the fact that the police can have contracts, like with a privat security company is absolutely insane.
I'm Scottish, but have spent time in Germany (love it,) and the police are fine. They just go about their business, and are very civil if you need to ask them anything. Zero problem.
The times I drunkenly asked cops for directions here are uncountable. Yes there are exceptions like any place else but I am very okay with my german police. I am also ok with the cops of our neighboring countries, at least where I traveled to so far (still haven't been to poland for some reason tho) . Maybe french cops were a bit on the rough side but nothing compared to what we saw here.
@@EvilGNU You’re right about French Cops - rough, and can be quite brutal behind closed doors, but very rarely use their guns. Spanish cops (Guardia Civil, not the local Policia Municipal) can be very, very heavy handed, but even then, not like in the US. They draw their guns very rarely too. British Cops are mostly just arrogant and patronising; the forces are also rife with corruption and institutional racism, and they have a pretty self protective culture - it’s pointless expecting a force to investigate itself, and cops who give evidence against other cops are treated very badly, even by their superiors. They can be pretty rough too, but by and large there’s not too much to complain about on the actual violence front. It’s the corruption, racism and sexism, and ‘selectively turning a blind eye’, or favouritism, that’s the most annoying/frustrating. They’re not routinely armed either; when armed police are used, they actually rarely fire a single shot. However, when they do get it wrong, it tends to be in a quite spectacular way!
In most other countries, the public don't have easy access to guns, That to me is the obvious issue here when it comes to the US. If I imagine myself as a cop in Japan (for example) compare it to being a cop in the US, I'd be scared of my life all the time in the latter situation. I'd be ready to save my ass all the time with a gun in my hand. U get the picture. I'm not American btw so I'm not in any way trying to justify violence against the innocent public. In fact, where I'm from no one can use a gun legally except the army, authorities, politiicans/royalties/rich af people's bodyguards or secuity companies protecting banks, jewelry shops etc. And most of them can't even bring the guns home after work. The process to get a gun license is also rigourous. There's a reason to what's happening in the US
Same for Switzerland: a lot of administrative work, qualifications and a psychological evaluation before getting a gun (I think it takes 3 or 6 months before getting it if I remember correctly)!
@@Briselance yeah, so are we Finns. Someone should teach or show these facts to americans who claim that restricting psychos to own a gun. Means their guns are taken away. I still dont understand in what situation or world you need assault rifle..
That's what I'm thinking of. First, why do you have a firearm in your car? Second, why do you need tactics for not being shot by a policeman? Even in my third world country police don't shoot civilians to kill even though they are criminals. Maybe they can shoot a dangerous criminal by arm or leg but this would be a very extreme situation.
Australia is around the same size as mainland USA and we have just 9 police forces in total, 8 state and territory police forces plus the Federal Police.
In my country till recently to be like traffic policeman you had to go to police highschool with lasted 4 years, for anything else you had to go to police academy.aldo education lasts 4 years.mudt be 18 and graduate from highschool.few years ago anyone who wants to be a y kind of police officer must finish police academy, can't have criminal record.
@7:15 I think you are required by law to inform the police if you have a firearm on you, or in the car. If you don't, it's considered a concealed weapon, and you could go to jail for carrying a concealed weapon. I don't know this for sure, but I seem to remember that was the case in the Philando Castile shooting.
imagine every police or sheriff service has to fullfill a quote of one third of officers with an bachelor in law, one third a bachelor in psychology, one third (max.) with a military background only....
When I defend police here in Italy, it goes down badly except with those italians who have been in the US. What would surprise every American is that in China, nobody is afraid of street police.
@@iriscollins7583 because I see the lack of respect for the police, especially if young people are involved. An example that I can give you is this: Milano, about two months ago a boy had a kitchen knife in his hand, probably extracted after an argument with another peer. Luckily there were plainclothes policemen who calmed things down a bit, but the boy was still brandishing the knife. The agents have called for reinforcements, a van from the Rapid Department that can accommodate 9-10 agents in riot gear. You think it's too much, but with the shield they disarmed the boy, at least 3-4 agents to arrest him and the others had to manage the "public". Another boy who was there to have fun with the skate before all this happened, at the moment of the arrest he threw his skate on the heads of the officers. That's why I said "unfortunately it's true"
It's easy to understand Hours of training to become police officer in US: 647 Hours of training to become police officer in Eruope: from 2020 (Spain) to 4500 (Norway) That alone is enough
You say with the Castle case that the worst thing you could do is say you have a weapon, but the law with having a concealed carry permit is that you have to inform an officer if you’re stopped isn’t it? So he was trying to do the right thing so that they wouldn’t spot it and then shoot him, but they shot him anyway :-(
I'll add on a step or two for the systemic racism ladder. 1) Discover that it exists. 2) Accept that it exists. 3) Acknowledge it. 4) Deal with it/remove it. I'd say that accepting it is the first vital step because unless someone accepts that something is happening and that it's wrong, acknowledging it will be an almost solely impotent action. After all, you can apologise for something and not mean it. What's that apology then worth? Pretty much nothing or literally nothing. Great video!
First step is to prove it exist. No one has been able to. Many in the US police are very aggressive, borderline paranoid and see the US citizen as criminals, but they generally do this to everyone.
@@miloe436 That is very true and very sad. It shouldn't be that way. I'm not from America, but one of my closest friends is (dad was a cop), so I've heard a good deal. But maybe the fact that the police in the States are the way they are means they need this sort of deconstruction the most? Maybe it started as a reaction to rules and the culture there? Europe has had a lot of time to cultivate their way of life and thus its law's reaction to said way. Change has never happened overnight, but unless it starts, it'll never happen at all. Most humans don't want things to take time though, because of how we see and experience time.
@@Eyrenni @Teshyra It has more to do with the (potential) threat level the police face. Everyone and their dog can get a gun in the states. Criminals, mental unstable, doesn't matter. They could all easily get hand of weapons. If you buy a gun second hand, there are no background checks. If you follow channels like Donut Operator or Video Leak Police you can see all the crazy situations police needs to handle. This threat level and the fact that many officers are military veterans, has led to a militarization of the force. So what to do with this? One way is to ban weapons, like Australia did after the school shootings they had. However, this is not realistic. You need to change the constitution and good luck with that. Also the fact that there are so much guns in circulation, you will never get rid of them all. I can only see some solutions that may help with the situation. One is more education to the officers, especially how to de-escalate situations. Normally officers in other countries go through a three year bachelor education. The other solution is to make it mandatory to have a HD camera in the car and on the body of the officers. This has been popular the latest years, and have already led to more accountability amongst the force.
@@miloe436 The gun culture of the US does pose a very difficult challenge, I agree. I also agree that de-escalation education might be one of the best first options to implement as well as more education just in general. Education helps in 90% of all cases I think. Regardless of what field more education is being called for.
To become a policeofficer in Sweden you have to a collage education for 3 years. After watching this video I´m glad living in Sweden where the Police have a collage education.
It's funny how Americans waffle on about how owning a gun is a right due to the 2nd Amendment 🙄 - but when stopped by the police one of the first things the police do is DISARM you 😆
Thanks Foreign Reacts! You could check out a video where a police from LAPD explores the police forces in Finland, Sweden and Norway. th-cam.com/video/jbM9uCxEJDM/w-d-xo.html
I gues that it is universial to look better after you meet a barber than after meeting the police. But in US the deference it astronomical. Sad. Bad. Evil.
In 2009 I was interested in becoming a police officer here in Sweden and out of curiosity just from watching crime shows like Criminal Minds, CSI, Law and Order etc I wanted to see what the requirements were in the US for becoming an FBI agent. Literally the same as the requirements to become a regular police officer here in Sweden except the demand for a certain amount of years as a US citizen. Just sayin'....
The George Floyd murder was, as you said, a murder, regardless of prior convictions, possible intoxication or what have you. What I think many of these police officerse don't realise, is that policing over 300 milion people who have a right to be and potentionally are armed is a different situation than they're having to deal with. It still doesn't justify their behaviour, which can and have been downright criminal. In case you're wondering, I'm from the Netherlands
I’ve talked about USA ´s police issues recently with my father (he’s a retired Major from Swiss military) and he made a good point to me: except for the lack of hours in training, 🇺🇸 Police problem is 1 major thing: guns. Every citizen can be armed, so Police forces in the US don’t know if the person they’re talking to can kill them. So most police forces there live in constant fear for their lives and that can lead to mental disorders (like PTSD for example). Not saying there isn’t bad cops (of course there are), but lack of training and the stupid right to be armed is what is the problem! If US citizens allowed the « right to bear arms » to be changed, I think there wouldn’t be as many problems with Police or even Military forces! So basically (with the right to be armed amendments), the people are at fault for their Police… at least that’ll my point of view on the subject…
Not true. There are some cities that do it right here and some that go way beyond horrid. There’s a city in the southern most part of New Jersey that did it right. But to do that they had to fire almost all the police and the few that were left were retrained and hired new ones with different merits. The other police that do it right are the ones that work in expensive counties. And that’s because the governors there require these police officers to have 4 years of university education and a diploma. Look into the top paid counties in the United States.
most people own kitchen knives too, do you fear for your life everytime someone invites you to lunch? Cops are like bees, except each bee has a gun, pepper spray taser and a phone to call back for a dozen bees to sting you. these fears are not justified in an average traffic stop anymore than i not driving to the supermarket because i read statistics on vehicle fatalities.
So true! That's the same I told my parents, and I don't agree with police violence at all. But when everyone can potentionally carry a gun, you most often act hostile first and ask questions later - because firing a gun is easy and most Americans are so desensitised by it. It just needs one pull of a finger and you are death. It's not the same with knifes. I think the inhibition threshold is much much higher for knifes. It takes a lot more guts to get up close and personal and stab someone with a knife (and see all the blood flow) than it is from a distance with a gun in your hand. So, I totally agree with you that the right to carry a gun is totally the problem (coupled with the ridicolously little time it takes to become a cop in the US. No one seems to really care if you are even fit for the job).
@@Danisachan you cant assume everyone is out there to get you. 99% of people are not dangerous. Those that are tend to be in situations where the need for heightened alarm is often apparent. There is zero excuse for a cop to be trigger-happy on a casual traffic stop, esp after running plates.
@@miguelfonseca1104 Yes, and I do not accept unnecessary violence, but even from my perspective, telling people to put their hands on the wheel seems like excessive aggression to me (as I'm from Germany). From my perspective, that seems to be necessary in the US though. Uncalled for violence without cause? That's a whole other thing and I would never get behind that.
Gosh ! Constant threads lead to constand.... Some police officers like to settle down in the us, because of lack of rules. Those Sadist have to be taken away -like the other criminals
7:30 the fact that you have already thought about this situation and you have come up with plan for how not to get killed is worrying. Just telling you this is also very american.
Even you, as open minded man, don't know about "qualified immunity"!? That's the Problem! You "must" look Jamie Oliver (Last week tonight). I have seen many episodes. And after every of them, I'm glad that i live in Europe (Germany). There are so many horrible, shady things/laws in the US. But for your education i can recommend this show! Greetings from Germany ✌🏻
To be fair tho... If Hitler was the first to say the greatest and best thing ever figured out by humanity, by the emotional logic and reason of the people; we would be petty mofos and drop that shit because Hitler was the one who said it. 🤣 I think they did themselves dirty by focusing on who made the quote instead of the quote itself. Still funny as shit though. 😂
yeah it's so bad here in the u.s. hundreds of thousands of people are streaming across our southern border . i guess nobody told them. oh yeah it's the free stuff.
There hundreds of thousands of people from the middle East and Africa crossing into Europe each year. So what are trying to say. The only reason people from Mexico and South America is traveling to the US is because the US is the closest first world country to there's.
We have issues in our Country also, especially Shoot to Kill Orders against Indigenous Protesters. We still don't have the social issues breaking democracy like the US - to the extent Americans make excuses for the BS. We also need a diploma, and to pass physical training at Borden. Then if you pass, you can join a force.
I have played single video games exponentially more hours than it takes to be an officer in my country and I am not even a gamer, by any stretch of the imagination.
Cops all around the world also know how challenging and dangerous it is to be a cop in the USA, because of present firearms. There is more respect for them and the job they do, than anything else said by other police forces.
and yet they get barely any training. Here you can't become a cop without years of training. And to become investigator in crime (e.g. detective) you need to have at least A-Level High School Graduation
why I'm not surprise at all. its all come back to every leader. if you create a monster than don't act so surprise if the people around you turn into a monster too.
How can you learn 'the law' in a few hours.... The UK doesn't have 43 separate 'laws/by laws though...there are 4 distinct Legal codex (English, Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish law are all completely separate and different legal systems in civil law, though many laws are the same like theft etc....but so does France have that law tbf lol) and a Police officer from Scotland can not go to England without further training in English law....There is no such thing as UK law to be clear, there is a large amount of laws that each nations highest courts agree to ratify so as to have continuity across each nation in place but not a singular UK law. Each nation is broken down into divisional areas but they all implement the same laws.
I'm from Eastern Europe, I saw a lot of much, much worse policing and it was considered normal, proper and legal. They don't shot with stupid reason, but they have other possibilities.
Was it during communism???? My family is from Croatia and when it was a part of Yugoslavia it was also rougher than it is today...at least when I compare the stories my dad an other people told me who experienced communism. I would assume after the fall of the soviet union and yugoslavia that the police these days is more or less the same throughout Europe.
Mr Floyd‘s death was so disturbing and shocking it made the headline news worldwide. In Germany police will call an ambulance for someone who has a hard time breathing, not cuff him or put him in a chock hold. 😢
@@foreignreacts Yeah, the experienced officer should have corrected the other two. I work in private security and first rule if you put someone in handcuffs is to let them sit up, otherwise it's difficult for them to breathe.
George Floyd's death was a deliberate murder and all the officers involved should have gone to prison for the rest of their lives. My father is a retired British police officer and I get very angry when I see police breaking the law.
To me the strangest thing is your reaction. I bet every non american watching here is just frowning or be surprised and frowning hard. I can see yours is a nervous laugh but I've also noticed (my perception) the way you seem to be hyped up every time there's a display of force (too many weapons, the concept of america having a warrior mindset etc) I think that can explain how everyone living there are conditioned on a certain degree, even people who are actively fighting that. It's like you still thinking it's cool....to me it's not. If there's no honor in a fight, if there's no honor in a warrior, then what's the point? It's only trash.
Uhmmmm my friend, your overdramatic and loud expressions of your feelings and the (irritating) use of phrases like "bro" and "dude" (literally in EVERY sentence!!) are not going to go down good in Europe... *just saying*
You’re laughing way too much for the serious topic! Also Philandro Castile did everything right when he told the officer he had a gun. When you get certified and sign for the conceal carry permit, part of that contract says you understand that when approached by police you will disclose that you have a firearm. Not saying anything is illegal.I think you need to actually learn and know what you’re talking about before you speak and look like a fool laughing at ish that is not funny! And before you try to argue I’m racist that’s why I’m calling you out, I’m a black American as well!
What do you expect from people that only trained for a few weeks to do their jobs when in other countries you need to train for years to do the same job. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police_academy#:~:text=Police%20academies%20typically%20last%20from,though%20there%20are%20many%20variations. You can't learn all laws you are required to know in 15-30weeks of training. Main training is self defense (with a weapon) and not conflict management, psychology, law and other important things. Add to that that statistically EVERY American is arrested two times in life and it becomes a frightening scenario.
The fact that sheriffs get elected just seems absolutely insane.
totally agree...and usually by the rich...
Police corruption in action. They will only act in the interests of those who elected them.
What's more insane is many people don't even know that, and since so few people vote in local elections, incumbent sheriffs almost always win unless there's some controversy that grabs high profile media attention.
@@TheNeonParadox seems a strange way to run a town...Hitler could of hid out in one of these backwater towns...lol
That's how it should be. It means the community elects them. That's how a republic works. It's the same reason we have a jury, representatives, a president.
The problem is qualified immunity, lack of training, the mindset in general.
Qualified Immunity doesn't apply in the UK. Would you believe that in 2020 a police officer accused of trying to buy a £9.95 box of doughnuts for seven pence by sticking on a cheaper barcode has been sacked for gross misconduct. I thought it was only US cops that lived on doughnuts.
Just heard today that an Oklahoma sheriff was arrested for dealing and using meth. AND HE'S STILL EMPLOYED!!! LIKE WTF?!? 🤯
I didn't plan on going to the U.S. but this actually made me afraid to go there.
I lived in Virginia for 31 years. Walked my dog daily, went to the many shopping malls, grocery stores, restaurants never felt unsafe. Almost everyone drives.There is no public transport outside of the cities. It's like most Cities in other countries, safe and unsafe areas. We lived in a beautiful suburban area. I drove everyday into Washington DC for work. Drove home, no problem. Yes there is a lot of shootings and police brutality, which is totally unacceptable but I never saw any of it. Fortunately.
@@dianeleitch7049 There are no unsafe areas in my city, no shootings by cops or anyone else, and you can walk anywhere 24/7, in complete safety.
BE VERY AFRAID - The last thing you want is to even look at a US police person. It can cost you your life and the population will defend the cops. BE AFRAID!
@@dianeleitch7049 You’re white - am I right?
@@claudiakarl7888 no I'm purple with green spots!!
Fifty hours a week, for nine months for five years--for a painting decorator qualification. They gave me a psycho-aptitude test when I applied for the restorers' course. Then 5 years of apprenticeship and still studying to keep up with the technologies.
And to think that in less than 5 months in the U.S. I could have become a policeman! My father was also a carabiniere!!!
Wow, immunity of sort 😅
In Finland there is even more of a responsibility for a police to act exemplary.
Finland is a *civilised* country.
As it should be.
On paper they have. Unfortunately thin blue line mindset is commonplace in Finland.
@@JWildberry Yes there are some distorted people working as a police. They are accountable and not above the law or anyone else. Misuse of power or excessive force can have a heavy impact on that person.
Thanks for the tips but a person shouldn't need to be taught to de-escalate an encounter with a cop. That's the officer's actual job. At this point, I simply choose not to go back again to the USA at all. Which is a shame. I met some wonderful, friendly people the one time I visited some ten years ago
They say 43 in the UK but it’s still a single body essentially following the same rules and procedures
Three years to become a Police Constable/NCO in Greece, Four years a Commissioned Officer. During their academic years (which includes Law, Psychology and Social Sciences) trainees undergo a field training also as Candidate Police Constables/Officers. Police School here is a tertiary education institution i.e. University level
Same in Germany. You have to have a school degree that allows you to go to university to join the police.
@@claudiakarl7888 Unfortunately though there are many who would, do, make excellent police officers (albeit it at constable level) but who don't have the ability to make it to university level. Turning the police into simply another career only for the academically inclined and capable often rules out many who are excellent at dealing with the public and would be happy to stay in the lower ranks doing just that.
Same in most countries I think. At least in Europe but I’m pretty sure it’s the same in Asia.
@@musicandbooklover-p2o It differs a bit from federal state to state, but in Northrine Westfalia it’s necessary to have a school degree that allows you to make a bachelor study.
If I remember correctly Castile had his gun in the glove compartment next to his papers. That's why he told the officer in advance. 🤔 (Yes, those incidents reach all the way to Europe because we simply can't fathom how, just...how?!?)
647 hours are 26 days. Considering they sleep and work normal shifts it’s probably 3 months of training . Where I live it’s 3 YEARS plus very strict psychological and physical test.
I go months without even seeing any police in my safe, peaceful neighbourhood, in Edinburgh 🇬🇧
They tried the "no police" gig in CHAZ. It became a dumpster fire.
@@Briselance We see no police here because they are not needed. It's a very safe place 24/7.
Same here in Airdrie Lanarkshire..
Rare as hen's teeth.
@@georgejob2156 It's inconceivable to a lot of Americans...
The last Police representative I saw was Policewoman, who popped into our Knit and Natter club, a few months ago, she had a cup of tea and a chat with us.from the UK.😊
When I first heard about how short the police training in the US is I thought there must have been a mistake in the text. Like this can't actually be true right? How on earth is someone supposed to learn all the important stuff an officer needs to know, learn how to handle different situations etc in such a short time?
In my opinion 3 years should be the very minimum and of course a high school diploma, no extremist political views, psychological testing and whatever is needed to determine whether they are fit to serve. Oh and immunity is a NO GO.
There's so much wrong with US Law enforcement, you'd have to change the entire system...
Too many criminals there, especially now when all police officers are demonised and nobody wants to even be one, so people go into private security for better pay and respect.
@@RyuSaarva And the reason why there are too many criminals is the bad quality of life in poor communities. And the fact that the prison system dont rehabilitate them.
In prison the criminals only get worse. And thats what they want because most of the prisons are for profit.
And all of that is wrong in the first place. Poor people should have support so they dont need to resort to crime. And mentaly ill or sick people in general should get the help they need. And the prisons should NOT be private and for profit. But yeah i dont see those things changing in the US any time soon and its sad.
If there was less sick or desperate people there would be no need for trigger happy cops. Fortunately i live in Sweden and the cops are really nice here.
Once i was passed out in some apartment building hallway. Some person that lived there called the cops on me.
They woke me up asked few questions. I answered the questions and they hauled my drunken ass home and thats it.
In the US i would have found my self in a jail cell most likely hehe.
@@RyuSaarva See, that‘s the difference: becoming a security person pays less than being a police person.
Agreed!
@pegamini yeah lol ,all the shootings and violent crimes in america are done by cops...
With that training, I'd trust a barber near my neck with a razor more than a cop with a gun. Scary 😨
It is interesting and frightening for me at the same time that you know the rules of conduct for dealing with police officers and have the feeling that you have to pass them on. Another reason for me not to understand the hype about living in the USA! I'm always happy to live in Germany.
I love Germany 🇩🇪 Hello 👋 from Edinburgh 🇬🇧
Germany is fabulous. We love it there. Best wishes from the UK🇬🇧🇩🇪
Sensible!
Times the Finnish police has killed a person in the 2000's:
2000: An officer shot a mentally unstable man who escaped an ambulance and was threating them with a machete.
2009: During a siege on an apartment, the police shot an armed man who had threatened to kill another person in the apartment.
2010: A prison guard was killed when an officer accidentally fired his weapon.
2012: An officer repeatedly tazed a man who would not calm down in his cell. The cause of death is a bit unclear.
2015: An officer shot a man who attacked them with an axe while they were assaulting the mans apartment.
2016: Police shot a man who attacked them with an airsoft -gun. The man had stabbed another person, and was resisting arrest when he pulled out the gun.
2016: An apparently suicidal and armed man tried to break out of a siege and was shot.
2018: The police shot a man who shot at them from a car.
2021: The police were searching an apartment, when they were shot at. They answered fire and the assaulter later died of his wounds.
That's it.
Standard day from 10am to 6pm in the US?
Looking at the figures for Australia, we have been averaging just under 6 Police shooting deaths a year since 1989/90, until 2019/20 (our figures follow our financial year, which starts on 1 July) when there were 16. Since 2010, 5 Police have died through the actions of armed offenders. The most recent case in Sydney was a domestic dispute (mother and adult son). The guy was apparently armed with a knife, but we will have to await the outcome of the investigation to see if there are any adverse findings and recommendations with regards to the Police actions.
@pegamini Oh man, that's rly sad. I'm from germany our cops are also rly chilled most of the time. Is it possible that us cops are that way b.c. they allways have to think that someone is armed? Don't get me wrong, with that many guns in the us, i think a gunban would not be a good option but i think it's a reason.
I'm careful with how hot the asphalt is when walking my dogs in Summer over here in Sweden, and your police makes people lie down on hot Summer asphalt. So basically, I treat my dogs with more respect, than your police treats their citizens.
We do the same. We can get very hot summer days here in the South of England. We change our routine so that our dogs don’t walk on hot tarmac. Imagine having your face pushed into it by a bunch of big men for EIGHT minutes. In over 100 degrees!
I was exactly 100% thinking the same thing.....
So true,Finnish. I'm an american,some cities here are over-run with gangs,drugs,etc,etc,...we have concealled gun carry and people have open carry,guns on hips.Like the old west !!! LOL. Some americans are very agressive,ready to fight/shoot someone at the drop of a hat !!! LOL. There's active shooters causing chaos,A lot of racism here also. Especially against black,american citizens,just telling it like it is. This is a very,violent country. LOL.
@@Whippy99 Whippy99,there's a video of a dog attacking/biting a cop,who didn't want to shoot the dog,but cops here will shoot an unarmed,black man/teen with a swiftness. There's an older video showing a cop shoot a fleeing,unarmed blackman 8 times !!! 8 times !!! Then the cop drops his taser near the body,saying the guy was trying to take his taser from him.But,the corrupt cop didn't know he was being video-taped. Some of these cops are racist toward black,citizens or racially profile them. America was once a great country(a long time ago) I used to be proud to be an american-NOT ANYMORE !!! There's sooo much mess going on now,who would/could be proud of it ???!!!
@@powerbad696 Oh my life, that’s awful!
please mate watch your volume between your speaking and videos cause when you scream, i die here under a headphone
As an American, I’m already aware of all these police horrors without accountability, but it’s still shocking to see cops from around the world be astonished and disgusted seeing these incidents, too. I wish we would be called out more on a world stage and shamed into cleaning up our act and doing better.
Ey, you might be interested in Volker Pispers "History of USA and Terrorism".
He's bringing you the facts with a little bit of satire and humor.
Some years ago during a 7 year stint with what was then the NZ traffic dept (traffic police, now integrated with the national police service) we had a visit from some officer's from a US equivalent organisation on a cross-over exchange. I spent a few days with one of the visitors while he visited our small-town office. He found it unbelievable that we did not carry guns, nor, at that time, did we have battons, despite the fact that we would be on the road at night with only a radio for back up and that was sometimes nearly an hour away
Arrests were made with minimal problems if you treated the contact with respect. Those who got trouble tended to have a bit of a reputation for agressivemess. In addition we prided ourselves on "killing our own snakes", as we knew that the reputation of all depended on the few if an officer was overstepping the line on operation or behaviour, first there would be effort by Peerd to assist him get back on board but if this failed he would get little sympathy and no cover when the balloon went up and he was cought out.
I don’t see any police or police cars at all that on the rare occasions I see one pass by, I’m so glad that I wave at them.
America is the trenches.
No matter the crime, you shouldn't murder anyone. The right to a fair trial is a right!
There is *no* situation at all where you should sit on anyones neck. That is murder. It's not even manslaughter, it's outright murder.
Yeah, it was disgusting and I don't understand why people defend it, albeit I don't understand the point of portraying Floyd as a hero or martyr either.
He was a victim but also a criminal, but that does never warrant what was put under, I just don't think people should look up to him.
Steamboat Willie
That reminds me of that scene in Dirty Harry, when he tries to take information from the murderer/abducter after shooting him in a leg to stop him.
The dude couldn't stop crying about his right.
In real life, guys like that murderer in that movie... do they really deserve a right, when they deny others the right to live and not be harmed?
I knew it was bad but bloody hell that's disgusting....all people are equal in my world 🌎
what on god's earth has happened to America, why has it become such a polarised money hungry country, what in earth has happened to democracy and the so called American Dream that's only obtainable if you walk all over everyone and everything has to have a price and not a right...it's the least free country in the west that survives by being land of the fee than than the free...it's depressing and so sad 😢
I hope that you live in some _Civilized_ Country, as it seems you have been indoctrinated with the "Brand" that is America (U.S.). When you start by saying "What happened to America...", it is abundantly obvious that you haven't the foggiest clue of the historical reality that is the USA. You (probably) have accepted the American marketing lie, likely through media, that America is somehow is ... *or was* "Great", and full of opportunity for All.
It's not. And never was. You probably didn't know that ALL American law enforcement started from "Slave Patrols"? Yep. When a Slave escaped, the Locals/State(s) employed officers (officers = just a untrained mob of white men...just like today for the most part) to hunt down these people like animals. Here's another FACT you are most likely ignorant about: In the United States Constitution, as of this very second, it states that *SLAVERY IS LEGAL.* SLAVERY is _Constitutionally protected_ right now.
Here's something else you are likely ignorant to; Indigenous/Native American tribal peoples, to this very moment, _Own NO Land._ almost 40% of remaining Indigenous/Native American tribal peoples live without running water. These humans, post _GENOCIDE,_ are relegated to "Reservations." They, again by LAW, are forbidden to OWN these lands. These lands are "held in trust" by the US Government to this very nanosecond.
When you say "Why has [America] become...and what happened to democracy", you have bought into the brand fairytale. Like you may own an iPhone, And expensive gadget that is "branded" (marketed) as something special, when in reality it is a total ripoff. America has never been a _Civilized_ nation. Or a Democratic nation. Ever. I could go on and on trying to educate you, and I mean no disrespect, but it would better if you attempt to educate yourself, perhaps start here:
Read the 13th Amendment to the US Constitution (and try and think very hard on what the word "EXCEPT" means)
Search youtube for "The Quartering of Troops | Police Militarization"
I am not a usa citizen, so i apologize if i sound judgemental. I cannot judge because i know very little of your country. But from the outside, the usa look like a third world country. No working rights, no health rights, no social safety. And people brainwashed to think they live in the best place on hearth. It feels like a mix between Sudan (decades of war and poverty ) and North Korea (people there think they are in the best place)
@@almogt78 safer to live in Kabul or Baghdad than Chicago...
the founding fathers would turn in their graves to see what corporate America has become, a third world country with a first world military 🤷🤦😞
It happens more with great power countries
@@-_YouMayFind_- That's not true at all.
That’s my thought as well when watching informative videos on the US: the founding fathers would be ashamed of what it’s become!
It never ceases to amaze me how a nation which prides itself on its right to bear arms are so dumbfounded that their police force would react in such an over the top way when confronting potentially armed citizens. They just want to get home from their day's work alive, FFS. You got the police service that you deserve by demanding that right!
Correct. 2:nd amendment is the problem.
Exactly. Literally the dumbest thing ever. We set up the system and then cry when it works.
@@kjellcarlsson5639 but their 2nd amendment has lost its original meaning.
“A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
*Militia meaning
militia - civilians trained as soldiers but not part of the regular army. reserves. military force, military group, military unit, force - a unit that is part of some military service; "
Their neighbours, shop keepers or average people aren’t militia
@@bernadettelanders7306 If you say so, but that doesn’t make the interpretation of the 2:nd amendment “of today” less scary, does it?
@@kjellcarlsson5639 I don’t know any of that for sure, I’m Australian and have done a quite bit of reading on it and I’m more curious than anything. I read somewhere how many times the 2nd amendment has been changed. But looking things up on google is definitely no proof at all. I found what I wrote after reading the same things on many different sites - so the foundations are there, but you’d have to read original official documents to get the exact truth. But the Militia info I checked on a few sites. I never believe what I first read, but been browsing for a few months. IF it’s true, the average person shouldn’t, by law I guess, be carrying a weapon.
In Finland you need to study/train for three years to become a police officer. It's basically a bachelor degree.
Finnish police carries firearms but getting it of the belt is very rare. I think as a whole Finnish police force threats with a gun about 100 times a year and shoots about 5 times a year. That's all Finnish cops combined. And total of 10 people have died because of polices actions after year 2000.
Also in Finland the fact that someone is actually shooting AT police does not give any automatic right to police to shoot back. If there's any other alternative then police is not allowed to shoot. And when police officer shoots an investigation is always initiated to check if in fact the police had right to shoot in that particular case.
Likewise here. Also the responce from the Police officer has to be analogous to the threat e.g. it's unacceptable here, a police officer to shoot to kill someone who's unstable (for psychopathological reasons or due to drug abbuse) and is brandishing a knife. The primary responsibility of the police officer has to be to defuse the situation and capture the person alive and -if possible- unharmed
@@apmoy70 Exactly, that's what we should expect in civilized countries! like we have had one terrorist knife attack here and police shot one bullet - in the leg of attacker. They handcuffed him and one cop started to treat the wound while others started to defend the attacker from the mob which was chasing him before cops got there....
@@apmoy70
The primary responsibility of a police officer is to protect.
If it can't be realistically made through "defusal", shoot.
@@tonipalm
Yeah, right. Because it's so easy to aim for the leg when you are being attacked, hey?
Get back to the real world.
If Finnish police are fired at, they can't shoot back??
How are they supposed to realistically, feasibly stop the threat the shooter poses to themselves and to any bystander?
The fact that you know how to act if you have a firearm in your car and how to avoid getting shot is saying alot. Also i get that a police man have fear of being shot but that does not mean they should sit on peoples necks or any part of them. They need to be aware of the person they handcuffing and how he/she really feel and if something really is wrong. If he/she is saying he can't breath then you check that and change position to make sure they are not dying. I mean just thinking that i might die in a interaction with a police i don't even know how to feel about that.
None of these are issues in civilised countries.
A lot of TH-camrs from the USA explain the best way to interact with police in order not to be killed. Like they are dealing with mafia or dangerous mob, ready to kill. It is insane. In both my country of origin and my country of adoption, I call the police when I want to feel safe. Not the other way around
But also what is with these people that are having guns with them and are willing to shot Police Officers and maybe kill a person. I'd say having a gun is one thing but the motivation to use it is an other.
@@albin2232 th-cam.com/video/pBekdnGWAcs/w-d-xo.html this video showing Swedish police in New York and how they deal with an issues happening during their vacation. A bit different imo.
@@uniquename111 Yes. Completely calm and non-threatening, whilst fully aware of what to do, and not do.
Here in Germany, seeing the police makes you feel safe.
If you are in another city and you need directions you can ask them. No Problem.
In the US you teach children in school how to avoid the be murdered by the police.
This is so sad.
I remember one case in Germany, a video, a officer shot a man, and killed him sadly.
The man had a knife and was clearly not stable. the officer told him. multible times, to put the knife down.
He run towards her, with the knife up. And only when he was like 4 steps away, she shot.
that case made news.
the police is trained to de-escalate, to use force only if necessary, and deadly force only in immediate danger of death or great bodily harm. like it should be.
Also, the fact that the police can have contracts, like with a privat security company is absolutely insane.
I'm Scottish, but have spent time in Germany (love it,) and the police are fine. They just go about their business, and are very civil if you need to ask them anything. Zero problem.
The times I drunkenly asked cops for directions here are uncountable.
Yes there are exceptions like any place else but I am very okay with my german police.
I am also ok with the cops of our neighboring countries, at least where I traveled to so far (still haven't been to poland for some reason tho) .
Maybe french cops were a bit on the rough side but nothing compared to what we saw here.
@@EvilGNU You’re right about French Cops - rough, and can be quite brutal behind closed doors, but very rarely use their guns.
Spanish cops (Guardia Civil, not the local Policia Municipal) can be very, very heavy handed, but even then, not like in the US. They draw their guns very rarely too.
British Cops are mostly just arrogant and patronising; the forces are also rife with corruption and institutional racism, and they have a pretty self protective culture - it’s pointless expecting a force to investigate itself, and cops who give evidence against other cops are treated very badly, even by their superiors. They can be pretty rough too, but by and large there’s not too much to complain about on the actual violence front. It’s the corruption, racism and sexism, and ‘selectively turning a blind eye’, or favouritism, that’s the most annoying/frustrating. They’re not routinely armed either; when armed police are used, they actually rarely fire a single shot. However, when they do get it wrong, it tends to be in a quite spectacular way!
In most other countries, the public don't have easy access to guns, That to me is the obvious issue here when it comes to the US. If I imagine myself as a cop in Japan (for example) compare it to being a cop in the US, I'd be scared of my life all the time in the latter situation. I'd be ready to save my ass all the time with a gun in my hand. U get the picture. I'm not American btw so I'm not in any way trying to justify violence against the innocent public. In fact, where I'm from no one can use a gun legally except the army, authorities, politiicans/royalties/rich af people's bodyguards or secuity companies protecting banks, jewelry shops etc. And most of them can't even bring the guns home after work. The process to get a gun license is also rigourous. There's a reason to what's happening in the US
Same for Switzerland: a lot of administrative work, qualifications and a psychological evaluation before getting a gun (I think it takes 3 or 6 months before getting it if I remember correctly)!
@@SailorSayuri
Yet you Swiss neighbours are hyper armed. Way more than anyone in Western Europe.
@@Briselance yeah, so are we Finns. Someone should teach or show these facts to americans who claim that restricting psychos to own a gun. Means their guns are taken away. I still dont understand in what situation or world you need assault rifle..
When you talk about how to avoid being shot by police.... Are you aware that this is not normal?
That's what I'm thinking of. First, why do you have a firearm in your car? Second, why do you need tactics for not being shot by a policeman? Even in my third world country police don't shoot civilians to kill even though they are criminals. Maybe they can shoot a dangerous criminal by arm or leg but this would be a very extreme situation.
Australia is around the same size as mainland USA and we have just 9 police forces in total, 8 state and territory police forces plus the Federal Police.
In my country till recently to be like traffic policeman you had to go to police highschool with lasted 4 years, for anything else you had to go to police academy.aldo education lasts 4 years.mudt be 18 and graduate from highschool.few years ago anyone who wants to be a y kind of police officer must finish police academy, can't have criminal record.
Loved it when you corrected yourself on shouting when i was literally thinking, dude shush already!
@7:15 I think you are required by law to inform the police if you have a firearm on you, or in the car.
If you don't, it's considered a concealed weapon, and you could go to jail for carrying a concealed weapon.
I don't know this for sure, but I seem to remember that was the case in the Philando Castile shooting.
Yes, in 14 states. In other states it's a notify when asked rule.
3 years of study in Argentina to be one
This country is so fucked up.... holy shit
imagine every police or sheriff service has to fullfill a quote of one third of officers with an bachelor in law, one third a bachelor in psychology, one third (max.) with a military background only....
When I defend police here in Italy, it goes down badly except with those italians who have been in the US. What would surprise every American is that in China, nobody is afraid of street police.
Purtroppo è vero
Why unfortunately?
@@iriscollins7583 because I see the lack of respect for the police, especially if young people are involved. An example that I can give you is this: Milano, about two months ago a boy had a kitchen knife in his hand, probably extracted after an argument with another peer. Luckily there were plainclothes policemen who calmed things down a bit, but the boy was still brandishing the knife. The agents have called for reinforcements, a van from the Rapid Department that can accommodate 9-10 agents in riot gear. You think it's too much, but with the shield they disarmed the boy, at least 3-4 agents to arrest him and the others had to manage the "public". Another boy who was there to have fun with the skate before all this happened, at the moment of the arrest he threw his skate on the heads of the officers. That's why I said "unfortunately it's true"
I've never been to the US and I'm def not going!!! Too afraid. And no, I'm not kidding. 😐🇫🇮
Where did you go?
The Sheriff culture.
It's easy to understand
Hours of training to become police officer in US: 647
Hours of training to become police officer in Eruope: from 2020 (Spain) to 4500 (Norway)
That alone is enough
I think they have to learn a lot about staying polite to any civilian always
Correct
Check out Jim Jeffreys Rides Along with Dutch Police. It's an eye opener for people who've never traveled abroad.
Another example of America not being a free country like they want to belive.
You say with the Castle case that the worst thing you could do is say you have a weapon, but the law with having a concealed carry permit is that you have to inform an officer if you’re stopped isn’t it? So he was trying to do the right thing so that they wouldn’t spot it and then shoot him, but they shot him anyway :-(
My guess for the cop vs solddier was number 3, jsut because of the unifrom, not the gun or equipment.
I'll add on a step or two for the systemic racism ladder. 1) Discover that it exists. 2) Accept that it exists. 3) Acknowledge it. 4) Deal with it/remove it.
I'd say that accepting it is the first vital step because unless someone accepts that something is happening and that it's wrong, acknowledging it will be an almost solely impotent action. After all, you can apologise for something and not mean it. What's that apology then worth? Pretty much nothing or literally nothing.
Great video!
First step is to prove it exist. No one has been able to. Many in the US police are very aggressive, borderline paranoid and see the US citizen as criminals, but they generally do this to everyone.
@@miloe436 That is very true and very sad. It shouldn't be that way. I'm not from America, but one of my closest friends is (dad was a cop), so I've heard a good deal. But maybe the fact that the police in the States are the way they are means they need this sort of deconstruction the most? Maybe it started as a reaction to rules and the culture there? Europe has had a lot of time to cultivate their way of life and thus its law's reaction to said way. Change has never happened overnight, but unless it starts, it'll never happen at all. Most humans don't want things to take time though, because of how we see and experience time.
@@Eyrenni @Teshyra It has more to do with the (potential) threat level the police face. Everyone and their dog can get a gun in the states. Criminals, mental unstable, doesn't matter. They could all easily get hand of weapons. If you buy a gun second hand, there are no background checks. If you follow channels like Donut Operator or Video Leak Police you can see all the crazy situations police needs to handle.
This threat level and the fact that many officers are military veterans, has led to a militarization of the force.
So what to do with this? One way is to ban weapons, like Australia did after the school shootings they had. However, this is not realistic. You need to change the constitution and good luck with that. Also the fact that there are so much guns in circulation, you will never get rid of them all.
I can only see some solutions that may help with the situation. One is more education to the officers, especially how to de-escalate situations. Normally officers in other countries go through a three year bachelor education. The other solution is to make it mandatory to have a HD camera in the car and on the body of the officers. This has been popular the latest years, and have already led to more accountability amongst the force.
@@miloe436 The gun culture of the US does pose a very difficult challenge, I agree. I also agree that de-escalation education might be one of the best first options to implement as well as more education just in general. Education helps in 90% of all cases I think. Regardless of what field more education is being called for.
@@Eyrenni
Deconstruction?? 🤨
To become a policeofficer in Sweden you have to a collage education for 3 years. After watching this video I´m glad living in Sweden where the Police have a collage education.
It's funny how Americans waffle on about how owning a gun is a right due to the 2nd Amendment 🙄 - but when stopped by the police one of the first things the police do is DISARM you 😆
No, not really. You just show your CCW to the police.
@@miloe436 only, if you're white - if not, they'll shot you.
Thanks Foreign Reacts! You could check out a video where a police from LAPD explores the police forces in Finland, Sweden and Norway. th-cam.com/video/jbM9uCxEJDM/w-d-xo.html
Everyone on the planet knows the George Floyd situation as most countries in the world have access to global news.
I gues that it is universial to look better after you meet a barber than after meeting the police.
But in US the deference it astronomical.
Sad. Bad. Evil.
Apparently the license Philando Castile was carrying required him to announce that he had a concealed weapon.
From India here.. got a job offer for 6 figure job from US.. denied it just because I can't live in a place where guns are so common..
In 2009 I was interested in becoming a police officer here in Sweden and out of curiosity just from watching crime shows like Criminal Minds, CSI, Law and Order etc I wanted to see what the requirements were in the US for becoming an FBI agent.
Literally the same as the requirements to become a regular police officer here in Sweden except the demand for a certain amount of years as a US citizen. Just sayin'....
The Floyd case came down to passing a death sentence on someone for a dodgy $20 bill. That they couldn't prove was even intentionally used.
The George Floyd murder was, as you said, a murder, regardless of prior convictions, possible intoxication or what have you. What I think many of these police officerse don't realise, is that policing over 300 milion people who have a right to be and potentionally are armed is a different situation than they're having to deal with. It still doesn't justify their behaviour, which can and have been downright criminal. In case you're wondering, I'm from the Netherlands
The problem is not the 647 hours of training, the problem is what they are taught. Be police in the US is the dream of all psychopaths.
No, in that short time you can’t learn anything useful, despite being an aggressor.
@@karinland8533 .To be human and feel empathy is not necessary training.
I’ve talked about USA ´s police issues recently with my father (he’s a retired Major from Swiss military) and he made a good point to me: except for the lack of hours in training, 🇺🇸 Police problem is 1 major thing: guns. Every citizen can be armed, so Police forces in the US don’t know if the person they’re talking to can kill them. So most police forces there live in constant fear for their lives and that can lead to mental disorders (like PTSD for example).
Not saying there isn’t bad cops (of course there are), but lack of training and the stupid right to be armed is what is the problem!
If US citizens allowed the « right to bear arms » to be changed, I think there wouldn’t be as many problems with Police or even Military forces!
So basically (with the right to be armed amendments), the people are at fault for their Police… at least that’ll my point of view on the subject…
Not true. There are some cities that do it right here and some that go way beyond horrid. There’s a city in the southern most part of New Jersey that did it right. But to do that they had to fire almost all the police and the few that were left were retrained and hired new ones with different merits.
The other police that do it right are the ones that work in expensive counties. And that’s because the governors there require these police officers to have 4 years of university education and a diploma.
Look into the top paid counties in the United States.
most people own kitchen knives too, do you fear for your life everytime someone invites you to lunch?
Cops are like bees, except each bee has a gun, pepper spray taser and a phone to call back for a dozen bees to sting you. these fears are not justified in an average traffic stop anymore than i not driving to the supermarket because i read statistics on vehicle fatalities.
So true! That's the same I told my parents, and I don't agree with police violence at all. But when everyone can potentionally carry a gun, you most often act hostile first and ask questions later - because firing a gun is easy and most Americans are so desensitised by it. It just needs one pull of a finger and you are death. It's not the same with knifes. I think the inhibition threshold is much much higher for knifes. It takes a lot more guts to get up close and personal and stab someone with a knife (and see all the blood flow) than it is from a distance with a gun in your hand. So, I totally agree with you that the right to carry a gun is totally the problem (coupled with the ridicolously little time it takes to become a cop in the US. No one seems to really care if you are even fit for the job).
@@Danisachan you cant assume everyone is out there to get you. 99% of people are not dangerous. Those that are tend to be in situations where the need for heightened alarm is often apparent. There is zero excuse for a cop to be trigger-happy on a casual traffic stop, esp after running plates.
@@miguelfonseca1104 Yes, and I do not accept unnecessary violence, but even from my perspective, telling people to put their hands on the wheel seems like excessive aggression to me (as I'm from Germany). From my perspective, that seems to be necessary in the US though. Uncalled for violence without cause? That's a whole other thing and I would never get behind that.
Gosh ! Constant threads lead to constand.... Some police officers like to settle down in the us, because of lack of rules. Those Sadist have to be taken away -like the other criminals
7:30 the fact that you have already thought about this situation and you have come up with plan for how not to get killed is worrying.
Just telling you this is also very american.
Even you, as open minded man, don't know about "qualified immunity"!?
That's the Problem!
You "must" look Jamie Oliver (Last week tonight).
I have seen many episodes. And after every of them, I'm glad that i live in Europe (Germany).
There are so many horrible, shady things/laws in the US.
But for your education i can recommend this show!
Greetings from Germany ✌🏻
If you need this Police.. .. Something goes really wrong
To be fair tho...
If Hitler was the first to say the greatest and best thing ever figured out by humanity, by the emotional logic and reason of the people; we would be petty mofos and drop that shit because Hitler was the one who said it. 🤣
I think they did themselves dirty by focusing on who made the quote instead of the quote itself.
Still funny as shit though. 😂
yeah it's so bad here in the u.s. hundreds of thousands of people are streaming across our southern border . i guess nobody told them. oh yeah it's the free stuff.
There hundreds of thousands of people from the middle East and Africa crossing into Europe each year. So what are trying to say.
The only reason people from Mexico and South America is traveling to the US is because the US is the closest first world country to there's.
We have issues in our Country also, especially Shoot to Kill Orders against Indigenous Protesters.
We still don't have the social issues breaking democracy like the US - to the extent Americans make excuses for the BS.
We also need a diploma, and to pass physical training at Borden. Then if you pass, you can join a force.
Rates for Indigenous people are worse than Black Americans. They aren't a big enough demographic to make it known. After genocide. Sigh.
I have played single video games exponentially more hours than it takes to be an officer in my country and I am not even a gamer, by any stretch of the imagination.
Cops all around the world also know how challenging and dangerous it is to be a cop in the USA, because of present firearms.
There is more respect for them and the job they do, than anything else said by other police forces.
and yet they get barely any training. Here you can't become a cop without years of training. And to become investigator in crime (e.g. detective) you need to have at least A-Level High School Graduation
Dude really love your Video but please we can read no need to Pause every 5 seconds
US gestapo is a better way to call that...
why I'm not surprise at all. its all come back to every leader. if you create a monster than don't act so surprise if the people around you turn into a monster too.
How can you learn 'the law' in a few hours.... The UK doesn't have 43 separate 'laws/by laws though...there are 4 distinct Legal codex (English, Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish law are all completely separate and different legal systems in civil law, though many laws are the same like theft etc....but so does France have that law tbf lol) and a Police officer from Scotland can not go to England without further training in English law....There is no such thing as UK law to be clear, there is a large amount of laws that each nations highest courts agree to ratify so as to have continuity across each nation in place but not a singular UK law. Each nation is broken down into divisional areas but they all implement the same laws.
So sad. So sick. What the good cops can do there; are there any?
I'm from Eastern Europe, I saw a lot of much, much worse policing and it was considered normal, proper and legal. They don't shot with stupid reason, but they have other possibilities.
Was it during communism????
My family is from Croatia and when it was a part of Yugoslavia it was also rougher than it is today...at least when I compare the stories my dad an other people told me who experienced communism.
I would assume after the fall of the soviet union and yugoslavia that the police these days is more or less the same throughout Europe.
Mr Floyd‘s death was so disturbing and shocking it made the headline news worldwide.
In Germany police will call an ambulance for someone who has a hard time breathing, not cuff him or put him in a chock hold. 😢
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you're not letting the video breath my friend !! stop reacting nervously every 10 seconds !! watch more an let the information sink in
Bro,when you shriek,your mic is way too high and it sounds like a cat being run over.
Sort it.
there are armys around the world not armed like US Police xD
USA use to be nice... now days its not so inviting.
The Floyd case was just bad arrest techniques used. Two newbies on the work and no proper guiding them by the experienced officer.
The experience guy led the operation
Also the experienced guy knew Floyd
@@foreignreacts Yeah, the experienced officer should have corrected the other two. I work in private security and first rule if you put someone in handcuffs is to let them sit up, otherwise it's difficult for them to breathe.
George Floyd's death was a deliberate murder and all the officers involved should have gone to prison for the rest of their lives. My father is a retired British police officer and I get very angry when I see police breaking the law.
The cops in NYC when I visited were scruffy, lazy and entitled.
To me the strangest thing is your reaction. I bet every non american watching here is just frowning or be surprised and frowning hard. I can see yours is a nervous laugh but I've also noticed (my perception) the way you seem to be hyped up every time there's a display of force (too many weapons, the concept of america having a warrior mindset etc) I think that can explain how everyone living there are conditioned on a certain degree, even people who are actively fighting that. It's like you still thinking it's cool....to me it's not.
If there's no honor in a fight, if there's no honor in a warrior, then what's the point? It's only trash.
The cops but they life on the line some of this guys be having weapons don't blame the Damm police
Stop pausing and stop taking so much thank you
Unfortunately it’s a reaction video
Therefore I will contribute to stop the videos and speak
Have a good day!
Why are the comparing cops to other countries all countries has they own law
Uhmmmm my friend, your overdramatic and loud expressions of your feelings and the (irritating) use of phrases like "bro" and "dude" (literally in EVERY sentence!!) are not going to go down good in Europe... *just saying*
Get on with the video and stop the begging .
You’re laughing way too much for the serious topic! Also Philandro Castile did everything right when he told the officer he had a gun. When you get certified and sign for the conceal carry permit, part of that contract says you understand that when approached by police you will disclose that you have a firearm. Not saying anything is illegal.I think you need to actually learn and know what you’re talking about before you speak and look like a fool laughing at ish that is not funny!
And before you try to argue I’m racist that’s why I’m calling you out, I’m a black American as well!
What do you expect from people that only trained for a few weeks to do their jobs when in other countries you need to train for years to do the same job. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police_academy#:~:text=Police%20academies%20typically%20last%20from,though%20there%20are%20many%20variations. You can't learn all laws you are required to know in 15-30weeks of training. Main training is self defense (with a weapon) and not conflict management, psychology, law and other important things. Add to that that statistically EVERY American is arrested two times in life and it becomes a frightening scenario.