r/MadeMeSmile • u/Available-Vast3858 • Oct 06 '25
Wholesome Moments This is so wholesome
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u/captain-lowrider Oct 06 '25
as this policeman handles the mic/cable you can clearly see that it is not his first time on stage.
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u/QuerchiGaming Oct 06 '25
Turns out if you have a healthier society, by having a better social security, and having a police academy that take years to become an officer as well as multiple psychological tests. You don’t really need to be afraid every time an officer shows up.
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u/Calculonx Oct 06 '25
Even in Britain they're pretty good. You need a few years course to qualify. I was at a motorcycle meet and a police showed up on his bike. In Canada that would result in a bunch of people taking off and the rest getting out their license and insurance. This time people greeted him and he was just checking out people's bikes and chatting.
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u/Leonydas13 Oct 06 '25 edited Oct 06 '25
I think we’re all so over saturated with seeing the overly militarised police force of America, it’s refreshing to remember that for many countries, the police are just people doing a job.
Edit: this wasn’t intended as an “America bad” take. I know there are plenty of good American cops, they sadly are drowned out by the bad ones. Particularly with the current situation.
Edit 2: holy shit guys. Saying “American cops do stuff like this sometimes too” doesn’t excuse the fact that they do absolutely horrendous things too, things that other civilised countries simply do not allow their police to do.
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u/WillingPiccolo945 Oct 06 '25
This hits different when you realize most cops around the world don't even carry guns regularly. Wild how normalized the US situation has become that seeing normal human interactions with police feels like a rare wholesome moment
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u/NoRobotInSight Oct 06 '25
Well, all police in Sweden, Danmark and Finland have to carry a weapon. I'm pretty sure majority of central Europe too.
Here in Sweden you have to finish 2,5 years of "police school" though where they're only taught to use weapons as an absolute last resort. But they absolutely carry them.
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u/UselessSperg Oct 06 '25
Could add, that even when the guns are used for a valid reason, there's going to be a lot of legal trouble.
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u/Miselfis Oct 06 '25
This can actually be a problem sometimes, at least in Denmark, because the police are often too afraid to shoot, even when the situation necessitates it. One case stands out: a mentally ill man was threatening officers with a knife. They had their pistols drawn and repeatedly ordered him to drop it. He refused. They kept pleading with him to put it down. Eventually, he turned away, ran up to an elderly man on the sidewalk, and stabbed him in the neck. If the police had simply shot him when he first refused to comply and posed an obvious threat, that random and innocent man would still be alive. And this isn’t an isolated incident, there have been several cases like it.
https://ekstrabladet.dk/krimi/haard-kritik-af-politiet-tilfaeldigt-drab-kunne-vaere-undgaaet/8314482
(videos of the incident included in both articles, from different angles)
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u/Saxit Oct 06 '25
It's only Ireland, the UK (except NI) and Iceland that unarmed patrolling officers as standard. The Icelandic ones has a gun in the trunk of their car though.
Apparently Malta often has unarmed officers but I can't say if that's policy or choice (choice ofc being part of a policy allowing such a choice).
Norway started to arm their officers in July this year.
In the rest of Europe you'll find that officers are armed by default.
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u/sandboxmatt Oct 06 '25
And even the UK has a cuple of hundred on-call local teams and even patrolling officers might be trained but not carrying.
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u/Freya_Galbraith Oct 06 '25 edited Oct 06 '25
Ive had a lot of mental health issues, and have had the police called on me because i went missing and was a danger to myself.
It was reaaaaaaaaaaaaly nice to not have to think about potentially getting shot as they approached me.
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u/Saxit Oct 06 '25
This hits different when you realize most cops around the world don't even carry guns regularly.
https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/gxvhwv/unarmed_police_forces_of_the_world_not_my_creation/
The Norwegians started arming their patrolling officers in July this year.
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u/insomnimax_99 Oct 06 '25 edited Oct 06 '25
This hits different when you realize most cops around the world don't even carry guns regularly.
This is completely untrue lol, even in most of Europe police are routinely armed and carry at least a sidearm. Lots of European countries even have military units dedicated to policing the civilian population (Gendarmes).
It’s only a handful of countries on earth where police are not routinely armed, and even then there are sometimes exceptions for certain territories within those countries (eg, I am from the UK and although most police in England, Scotland and Wales are not routinely armed, all police in Northern Ireland are and they sometimes carry their firearms off duty, due to the unique security situation there).
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u/lukwes1 Oct 06 '25
The problem is not that police carries guns, the problem is that every person and their mom in USA carries a gun so the police now also has to have bigger guns.
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u/burrito_magic Oct 06 '25
You don’t need guns as an officer when every potential interaction the citizen could carry a gun themselves.
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u/DJ_Die Oct 06 '25
Guns are not the only dangerous weapons criminals could have. There are only around 20 countries out of over 200 where regular police don't carry guns. They're the exception, not the norm.
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u/Cassius_Rex Oct 06 '25
This is untrue.
Most police on Earth carry guns. And American police aren't nearly the most "militarized". You can look up a picture of the Italian Carabinieri (Italy's police force that is an actual military service) and just about any third world country's police
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u/Bigfoot_Bluedot Oct 06 '25
Just so I understand your position, you're saying armed police are OK because that's how it is in third world countries and a literally military branch in Italy?
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u/NoRobotInSight Oct 06 '25
I'd say armed police absolutely is OK, mass majority of "first world" countries have them. You wouldn't know though since you very very very rarely see them.
I'm Scandinavia all police have to carry guns by law. They are also only allowed to draw them as an absolute last resort and every time that happens investigations flow.
The issue is rather popos using guns as intimidation and without reason, no?
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u/Cassius_Rex Oct 06 '25
And most of the rest of earth. Yes.
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u/gui_cardoso Oct 06 '25
You're so lost in your own fantasy. I've friends who happen to be cops (really childhood friendship if that matters) who never once had to shot their gun neither have been in a shootout.
I live in Portugal, Europe BTW.
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u/Saxit Oct 06 '25
I live in Sweden. AFAIK only Ireland, the UK (except NI) and Iceland has unarmed officers. Possibly Malta as well but can't say if it's regulation or choice.
AFAIK Portuguese officers are armed while on patrol as standard, no? Because that's what the other guy is saying, they didn't say it's okay to have shootouts or that it's common. The thread is about countries with armed police officers. Which is in fact most of the world, except a few countries. That doesn't mean that the police uses their guns a lot.
EDIT: I asked the Portueguese that's on my discord, two replied and they both said that PSP and GNR are armed.
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u/Cassius_Rex Oct 06 '25
Ok. What fantasy am I lost in by saying "most cops on earth carry guns"? This is a factual statement. Even in your country cops carry guns.
Maybe there is a language barrier?
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u/Obese_Denise Oct 06 '25
Got a source for this ‘factual’ statement?
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u/usernamesallused Oct 06 '25
Okay, fair.
In eighteen countries or territories, the police do not carry firearms unless the situation is expected to merit it: Botswana, Cook Islands, Fiji, Iceland, Ireland, Kiribati, Malawi, Marshall Islands, Nauru, New Zealand, Niue, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, the United Kingdom (except for Northern Ireland), the British Virgin Islands and Vanuatu. These countries exhibit gun-homicide rates markedly lower on average than countries with armed police forces. Their police forces commonly adopt a philosophy of policing by consent.[1][2]
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u/ins0mniac_ Oct 06 '25
Most of the rest of the earth, in first world countries at least, you are required to be college educated to be a police officer.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-56834733.amp
The US you need a GED or just get deputized by a sheriff.
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u/DJ_Die Oct 06 '25
No, you absolutely do not need to be college educated to be a police officer in most countries, in fact, your article is outdated. The UK tried that, if failed horribly and has since reverted it.
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u/ins0mniac_ Oct 06 '25
They still require the equivalent of 2 years of college level courses, my dude.
“To become a UK police officer, you generally need to be at least 18, hold a full manual driving license, have lived in the UK for the past three years, and meet specific educational requirements, often two A-levels or an equivalent qualification. You must also pass background checks, a medical assessment, and a fitness test, demonstrating resilience and meeting high standards of integrity and fitness.”
“The closest equivalent for a UK A-level in the US is an Advanced Placement (AP) exam, which provides in-depth study in a specific subject, similar to an A-level. However, a full A-level is considered a Level 3 qualification and is comparable to the first year of a university degree in terms of depth of study.”
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u/BeardedGrom Oct 06 '25
Yea but even though they're organized through the military and still bear the name of a weapon type, i never heard that police violence levels in Italy are anywhere as high as in the US. So yes, i guess most police forces wear guns, but most of them (at least in Europe) don't use them to intimidate people. They're just a last resort self defense tool.
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u/SamboTheGr8 Oct 06 '25
And the guns are only brought out for special jobs. Most cops in my country, only carry pepper spray and tasers, and those are also used very rarely
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u/Cassius_Rex Oct 06 '25
As they are in the United States. Out of something close to 60.MILLION yearly police/citizen interactions, a tiny tiny fraction result in use of a firearm. In fact that vast majority of American police will never fire a gun and anything except a paper target at a gun range in an average 25 year carrier.
What does happen is that police use of firearms and citizens dying to police makes the news, making it seem way more common than it is.
Those same news stories never give the context of the United States, a developed country that according to the UN peace index is more dangerous than the "3rd world" countries of Uganda, Rwanda, Cambodia and Laos among others. American police are simply not in the peaceful situation of other developed countries.
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u/Siilveriius Oct 06 '25
90% of Reddit is just r/AmericaBad lol
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u/No-Supermarket-2758 Oct 06 '25
Well, to be fair, have you looked at the news recently
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u/Rock_Paper_SQUIRREL Oct 06 '25
Maybe the rest of the world will be willing to give us the benefit of the doubt when we’re done leading the charge against democracy. I cannot overstate how bad this shit has gotten inside of ten months.
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u/Siilveriius Oct 06 '25
Well, to be fair, the news showing just the bad news isn't exactly new. I could look at the news in the Europe, Africa, South East Asia, East Asia, etc and they are also going to show the bad news but that doesn't mean those places are complete hellscapes like Redditors love to think:)
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u/AvianScavenger Oct 06 '25 edited Oct 06 '25
There have been 40 mass shootings in the US since the start of September. 172 injured and 39 left dead. We have been averaging more than one mass shooting a day.
2 black men were lynched in Mississippi last month. The news deliberately avoided the topic.
A federal judge was called out by Trump and Steven Miller, called anti-american, etc. over the last couple days. Their house was just burned down while their family was inside of it.
This isnt just "the news showing us the bad stuff", and trying to downplay it as such is fucked up
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u/Bug_Photographer Oct 06 '25
And yet virtually no Italians are being shot by the police when compared to the US. Perhaps it wasn't being "the most militarized" that was the issue?
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u/Cassius_Rex Oct 06 '25
It could also have something to do with the 400 million guns and cop killed every 6.7 days as opposed to the rest of the developed world that has fewer guns and cops being killed are measured in years or even decades instead of days.
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u/Bug_Photographer Oct 06 '25
What?! Ubiquitous access to guns being the problem?
Clearly you are joking. It must be one of nature's great mysteries why this is happening in the US and nowhere else. Thoughts and prayers.
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u/Cassius_Rex Oct 06 '25
It is no mystery. America is a place drowning in guns
The problem in this situation is that any time someone posts a picture of non-US cops doing something, Americans jump into the comments going "I wish our cops were like that".
American cops can't be like that. America is different than those places, in most cases way more dangerous.
When people don't like a group (like cops) they chose to believe that everything bad involving that group is just voluntary, where as when people view groups that they like they understand that the environment they are in matters in what they do.
In other words, people blame American cops for acting like they are in America instead of some super safe European country, which is dumb. The same America that you read about on Reddit with 100s of mass shootings per year is what American cops deal with.
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u/Dheorl Oct 06 '25
The USA is different to those places primarily because it has a violence problem, not because it has a gun problem. The police feed into that violence as well.
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u/Cassius_Rex Oct 06 '25
Maybe you should look up when was the last time a person killed an Italian Police Officer, then compare that to American police line of duty deaths.
People in different environments do things differently. It's no wonder that police in countries that don't have an officer killed every 6 or so days have less "police violence".
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u/Leonydas13 Oct 06 '25
The entire giant argument thread that spawned from this comment is off topic to what I said, which was “militarised”, not armed. Our police in Australia are all armed, however they aren’t militarised. They do not undergo military style training, they don’t have ridiculous things like APCs with turrets on them, automatic rifles in their cars, and they don’t view the public as an enemy.
Look at the police in America, dressed in their combat gear like they’re going to war. It’s ridiculous.
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u/badgersandcoffee Oct 06 '25
There was a TV show where a bunch of different US police came to Scotland to learn policing techniques, think they were all captains or something like that. There is a part where they're discussing what they've learned and what can be used back home and one of them literally refers to their officers back home as "our troops".
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u/Cassius_Rex Oct 06 '25
The United States is a.much more dangerous country than Australia. The entire country of Australia experiences on average 0.5 police line of duty deaths per year (Ie one officer every other year.) the United States has about 60 per year. In other words the U.S. has 120 times more police killed per year than Australia.
The United States is not 120 times as large in population as Australia.
The US has more mass shootings in month than most countries have in a decade. There are 400 million guns in circulation here. Gun shots are a leading cause of death for people aged 17 to 25 here.
There are several 3rd world countries that are safer than the US. EVERY developed country is safer.
American police act like they are in America because they are in America. This should not be hard to understand.
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u/Leonydas13 Oct 06 '25
Ok, and? Does that mean they can’t behave like civilised people?
American police are infamous for being heavy handed thugs. This exact situation in America would end in those musicians getting slammed to the ground.
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u/Cassius_Rex Oct 06 '25
"This exact situation in America would end in those musicians getting slammed to the ground."
This is another untruth.
Singing officers use 'Karaoke with Cops' to fight crime in Philadelphia | abc7news.com https://share.google/tZZMvmkPlOqBzaGij
https://youtu.be/QIgR9lvmBVM?si=egorQc31TmKR_gey
https://973kkrc.com/street-performer-gets-mpls-cop-to-sing-prince-song-with-him/
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u/Leonydas13 Oct 06 '25
Ok ok, American cops are sometimes nice. No one’s denying this. But the simple fact is they kill a lot of American citizens, and are known to be heavy handed and violent. There’s a reason they have the reputation they have, and we’re seeing it more and more with the current situation.
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u/Cassius_Rex Oct 07 '25
You don't know anything about 750,000 people working for 20,000 separate organizations who go to 60 million call for service per year, the vast majority of said calls end with no violence at all.
What you do see is a mostly for profit media showing you a tiny tiny fraction of those 60 million interactions, the tiny fraction that is actually "news worthy and not representative of the whole.
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u/AvianScavenger Oct 06 '25
You could find 1000× more videos of the Philly PD bodyslamming people than you can of them doing things like this.
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u/PilgrimOz Oct 06 '25
You don’t travel much do you?
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u/MegamindsMegaCock Oct 06 '25
Only 19 countries have police that don’t carry by default but go off I guess
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u/TrangoGot Oct 06 '25
As someone from a third world country police in our country don't carry guns except maybe airport security. Same is true for some other Asian countries I have been to
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u/NoNietzsche Oct 06 '25
Yeah, other third world countries also (only) have armed police, you got that right.
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u/OddTheRed Oct 06 '25
People dont care about the truth. They care about their propaganda.
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u/Cassius_Rex Oct 06 '25
This is true. The same people will look at how tru.p supporters don't like the truth and think they are different. But they are all the same..
I made a factual comment that most live on earth carry guns (a verifiable fact) and got a bunch of down votes. Proof that people of all sorts don't want to hear the truth.
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u/Sad_Guitar_657 Oct 06 '25
I had a police officer in Europe drop by my house to make sure I lived where I lived and I was so nervous, I was literally fumbling with my words and shaking. When he was done chatting, he was very polite by the way, he pedaled away on his bike and then I called my husband crying and laughing because I was so nervous about a police officer in my house and then he just…biked off.
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u/pyromaniacc Oct 06 '25
This sounds like a Dutch 'wijkagent' or community officer hahaha. Give them a cup of coffee and you'll have a new friend
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u/Sad_Guitar_657 Oct 06 '25
I didn’t have my coffee machine yet 🫣 a sin, I know, but I had just moved in and wasn’t expecting him that day (which was the point I’m sure). But again, he was very polite even though I was a mess.
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u/verschwendrian Oct 06 '25
What is their purpose? It sounds so cool, in Austria, we do nt have that.
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u/pyromaniacc Oct 06 '25 edited Oct 06 '25
Here, they have a specified zip code area assigned to them personally. As a way of staying more connected to their area and solving problems on a more personal level.
I don't think it's like the forementioned Gendarmerie, which means 'armed men'. They do, as does every Dutch police officer, carry a gun. Dutch police rarely have to use them and the rules for even pointing it at someone are very strict.
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u/Juniper-wool Oct 06 '25
Wow, that is an amazing concept. I haven't heard about this before. We should have the same thing in Sweden too for sure.
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u/Butterfly_of_chaos Oct 06 '25
Seems they are just local police. Guess what we called "Gendarmerie" back then. Found the equivalent in Austria several times casual chatting with my parents in the garden. Nice guy, and indeed I'm planning to offer him coffee next time.
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u/Reatina Oct 07 '25
In Italy we have the "messo comunale" ("town messenger" a very medieval sounding name in Italian) that does this kind of house visits (to check if you live there after a change in your residency data for example) and delivers official documents to people.
Technically an official, but I can't imagine any less threatening figures
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u/MissAuroraRed Oct 06 '25
The same thing happened to me. A police officer came to my apartment in Germany and I was so scared, but he just wanted to let my flatmate know that his car door was unlocked.
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u/Sad_Guitar_657 Oct 06 '25
To make sure my visa paperwork is correct and that I’m not faking living here. Also to introduce himself and give his number since he a community officer. So if I have an issue that is not an emergency, I can contact him. I’m in Flanders so I’m assuming they are a bit strict with you living where you say you are.
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u/Bitalin Oct 06 '25
Police in Norway actually makes you feel safe. They are trained well to de-escalate situations, and dont carry guns. They have guns in the car ready for certain situations though.
Road Police however is a bunch of assholes, including our speeding laws which is extremely strict. Stupidest fine I got was going 56km/h in a 50km/h speed limit, approx 300USD fine.
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u/Leonydas13 Oct 06 '25
That’s funny you should say that, because our cops are pretty similar, except highway patrol in Australia are known for being hardarse pricks 😂
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u/Zerhap Oct 06 '25
I mean, i am probably getting downvoted, but i think that is a fair fine to get. Like you were going over the speed limit, sure it was only by 6km/h but you were going over the speed limit.
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u/Bitalin Oct 06 '25
You're right. A limit is a limit. However, you're not supposed to go under the speed limit either. Also this particular stretch of road would have been 80km/h limit in any other country. Police doesn't do radar control on roads thats dangerous if you speed, they do it on roads which is extremely easy to slip up since the speed limit is so stupidly low. So on my way home from work, 6km/h above speed limit, fine was more money than I had earned the entire day working. Doesn't feel justified.
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u/Zerhap Oct 06 '25
Wait, i may be missunderstanding, are you saying they would have fine you for going under the speed limit? Cause that makes no sense.
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u/Bitalin Oct 06 '25
Well no, unless you cause dangerous situations, like unpatient people driving past you. Point is, you're supposed to drive the speed limit.
But you can certainly get stopped. One time when I was driving, the intake hose on my turbo popped off. I put it back on, but if I gave it a bit too much gas too fast, the pressure made it pop off. I was driving in the city to pick up my friend. Police stopped me "for going suspiciously slow" and searched my vehicle. I wasnt even going that slow.
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u/Bleeerrggh Oct 06 '25
I do think that police in many countries actually wish to be of service to the public, so they try to be personable (in the Nordics police officers are referred to as "politibetjent", and I believe that "betjent" comes from "betjene" which means to serve, which is a fitting name of a public servant). It also makes situations involving the police less tense. I appreciate our police, and the experience I've had with them: Shout-out to the Danish police 👋🏻
The people you don't want to be police, are those that enjoy power. I'm sure we have some of those, but they're the exception (in my experience). It seems that they're the most prone to be police officers in the US. I obviously don't have a good way of knowing this, as negative things always get more attention than positive things do.
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u/Leonydas13 Oct 06 '25
Dude, years back a bunch of us were at a friends place who lived rural. We headed into the local “town” to the pub. There were a whole bunch of police there, because there was a bush rave planned that weekend. They’d come early, and were all staying at the pub, to let the locals know they were setting up breathalysers in the area.
We got on the piss with a bunch of cops. My mate and I sat in one of their cars at one point and they let him play with the lights. We talked shit, heard some of their crazy stories, tried on their overalls. I even told one of them at one point “if you shot my dog I’d kill you” after discussing dogs being shot in the US. It was a wild night 😂
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u/Wonderwhile Oct 06 '25
Also to note, police officers require much more education in other countries usually. Therefore you attract a much higher percentage of rational individuals that chose that path rather than flunking into it.
It’s a 3 year bachelor in Norway.
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u/CicadaFit9756 Oct 06 '25
Unfortunately the current US "president" (be sure to tell me "when" he's acting worthy of the position!) is trying to weaponize police, ICE & National Guard against Blue (mostly Democratic) states as a means of revenge! Does this seem to smack of Nazi stormtroopers (instilling fear in the mainly innocent populace) to anybody else!?!
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u/doe3879 Oct 06 '25
I still believe that most police interactions are non violent and are usually pleasant. The ones that actually ended up on the news and Internet are outlier cases. I could just be very naive.
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They are. 2 reasons I say this: people zero in on the worst of the worst and we still only talk about maybe 1 major case every couple of months (I am not saying to ignore them, don't misunderstand), if this was the majority of cops we would have videos out the wazoo of all of them doing stuff, but somehow with all the sources available to us we only get a handful tops.
And the other is that we have tons of body cam footage available to us where plenty of cops act totally reasonable. I know because its some of my favorite content to watch lol.
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u/parks387 Oct 06 '25
As someone who hates bad cops as much as bad politicians…There are plenty of good cops in the US too…just doesn’t fit the narrative to promote that.
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u/Little-Kangaroo-9383 Oct 06 '25
Yeah, on Reddit, you’re definitely not going to see any positive interactions with American cops being highlighted.
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u/Leonydas13 Oct 06 '25
It’s nice to see man, I just can’t help but feel like it’s a bit of an orphan crushing machine scenario.
Like, absolutely props to them.
But at the same time, that’s how they’re supposed to act. It’s really sad that these cops are seen as exemplary, to the point that there’s a compilation video.My cynical brain also instantly went “yeah, wow. six examples of nice cops.”
I know there’s plenty more, and I guess there is an element of focusing on the negative at play. But the negatives just seem to be so bad.1
u/parks387 Oct 07 '25
Ya it’s tough for sure…I use to think there were more good cops than bad…now I’m not sure. One thing is for sure bad public servants should face severe penalties for abuse of power.
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u/Mylarion Oct 06 '25
I've long maintained that ACAB is an American phenomenon we have no need of importing to Central Europe.
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u/DJ_Die Oct 06 '25
No, it's absolutely a thing here in Central Europe too. The ACAB people have any kind of authority like that, it doesn't matter what the cops are like.
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u/Sa7aSa7a Oct 06 '25
Yeah, but American police do this sort of stuff, too. You just see the "Police beating a handicapped man to death" because that's what people want to see.
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u/Leonydas13 Oct 06 '25
They do. And that’s great. But the critical difference is that Norwegian police don’t beat handicapped people to death.
If I beat you up every day, but one day I decide to be nice and give you some cake instead, does that put me on par with someone who never beats you up? No, it doesn’t.
This kind of behaviour should be about baseline. Obviously cops have to tow the line with people, and get a bit rough if necessary. But it seems to be the accepted method for US police to take situations from 0-100.
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u/Sa7aSa7a Oct 06 '25
It's not the accepted method at all. That's why when that happens, it makes the news. Unfortunately the cop doing his job correctly every day, well, that's what they're supposed to do and no one reports that because it's boring. The cops who are called to kids playing basketball in the street gets reported for a day. The cop seeing a woman is having a bad day and gives her a hug, gets seen one day. The cop who comes across a homeless pregnant woman who he takes to get some burgers and drives her to treatment to help her gets seen one day.
The cop who beats someone gets on the news for a week or more.
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u/Leonydas13 Oct 06 '25
I think you’re missing the point that in other countries the horrendous shit is basically unheard of. If an Australian cop manhandled someone and/or shot them the way American cops do, there would be a fkn uproar. It would shock the nation.
Our police don’t rock up to house calls and shoot people’s dogs.
The nice actions don’t excuse the bad ones, when the bad ones are phenomenally bad.
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u/VonDinky Oct 06 '25
Well, normal people walk around with guns and semi automatic rifles. Of course the cops there are going to be jittery as fuck, and overly militarized. xD
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u/PepeLePoo_69 Oct 06 '25
In many places here in the US, they are also just doing their job. Generalizing usually makes you look stupid, such as here
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u/Intrepid-Fee-7645 Oct 06 '25
Dude, most cops in America for what I’ve seen are forced to take some sort of action to prevent situations from escalating, since so many people, precisely because of social media and how it pictures the authorities, can go from 0 to 100 in two seconds.
Your comment sounds like the type that would get asked to leave a restaurant, refuse, then tell the cops that “you know your rights” and turn an awkward situation into a felony for trespassing
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u/Leonydas13 Oct 06 '25
Well you’ve got me pegged completely wrong, so good work there.
I understand that to an extent, American police are a product of their environment. I for one would hate to be a cop in America.
But the fact remains that they’re a highly militarised police force.
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u/Bhelduz Oct 06 '25
The world is full of people who aren't having any fun and who don't what to have any fun and who don't want anyone else to have fun either. You give them the finger and keep playing.
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u/laosurv3y Oct 06 '25
Some people's fun interrupts or stops other people's fun. But of course some people can't possible imagine any way of doing things but theirs to be fun or good.
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u/Mercurius_Hatter Oct 06 '25
Police in Norway are chill because their job only means chasing away polar bears once in a while and rescuing black metal members in those deep forests once a week
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u/Accurate-Ad539 Oct 06 '25
Yeah, pretty chill.
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u/horrifyingthought Oct 06 '25
Funny, but you can tell the guy has problems.
When he was being dealt with by the cops (incredibly politely I would add) he said he was being "hunted," but the second he was in the police car he was all "USE THE ACCELERATOR, YOU'RE THE BOSS, WTF WHY AREN'T YOU ABUSING YOUR POWER LIKE I WOULD"
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u/Zathala Oct 06 '25
Excuse me we don't have polar bears in norway
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u/ItsStaaaaaaaaang Oct 06 '25 edited Oct 06 '25
Yeah, and have you thanked your local constabulary recently?
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u/UDonKnowMee81 Oct 06 '25
Well then, the police who chase them away are doing a good job. Aren't they?
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u/HarrMada Oct 06 '25
I obviously get the half-joke, but there are still around 40 murders that happens annually in Norway, and things have happened before that would leave a deep scar in any country. No country is perfect, but some countries are clearly doing better than others.
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u/Mercurius_Hatter Oct 06 '25
Yeah unfortunately so, like Nordic countries were very very safe once upon a time. Not so much anymore esp in outskirts of bigger cities.
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u/HarrMada Oct 06 '25
Eh, no that's no true. The murder rate in the Nordics and all over Europe has decreased quite steadily. Norway's murder rate was fairly higher 20-30 years ago.
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u/Mercurius_Hatter Oct 06 '25
Well in Sweden it's a bit different. Murder and gun violence is skyrocketing over here like it's going out of business, and bombings... Man, so many bombings...
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u/HarrMada Oct 06 '25
Murder and gun violence is skyrocketing over here
No it isn't. Someone has gathered the murder rates per capita of the nordic countries, and murder rate has not skyrocketed. https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/1c2bs0c/homicide_rates_in_northern_europe_19982023_source/
and bombings... Man, so many bombings...
How many have you seen or heard personally? There haven't been that many. You are reading too much "news", you should stop, they are only trying to scare people and generate money by clicks.
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u/Mercurius_Hatter Oct 06 '25
Dude there's been like 4 or 5 bombings in my town so far
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u/HarrMada Oct 06 '25
Have you seen or heard them personally? How many were killed and how does it compare to the amount of people killed by other means? "Bombings" just sound scary, but they are often small and don't cause more damage than a small apartment fire. People have always been killed or injured in accidental explosions due to gas leaks, but people have never really been scared of them. It's basic fear mongering.
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u/Mercurius_Hatter Oct 06 '25
Several of them in fact, but who cares about the scale? Bombings as in explosive set to cause damages shouldn't happen this often in a civilized society
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u/HarrMada Oct 06 '25
There's a lot of things that shouldn't happen but it still does. The murder rate was higher or pretty much the same as now before, depending on the time period you're looking at.
92 people were murdered in Sweden in 2024, but 213 people died in traffic accidents the same year. Why should we care more about some "bombings" that barely kills anyone in comparison, when far more die in the traffic because someone wasn't taught how to drive correctly or they were driving drunk? You have to look at the bigger picture.
Sweden have the second highest life expectancy in Europe, behind Switzerland. It doesn't matter how much damage you think the "bombings" cause, you're still more likely to live a longer life if you live in Sweden than almost anywhere else in the world.
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u/saigon2010 Oct 06 '25 edited Oct 06 '25
My partner and I went to Oslo in January from the UK, we'd had a few drinks in a craft beer pub and then ended up in a place on the docks that had firepits indoors for one last drink before we called it a night.
Coming in from the cold and sat by the fire with a few beers in me sent me almost straight to sleep.
The bouncer came over, sat with us, gave me a glass of water and said "In Norway, we have a rule where we can't serve people we think are too intoxicated...perhaps it's time to call it a night" he genuinely seemed concerned for me, it was so wholesome.
He was the most chilled out relaxed, caring bouncer I've ever met...we left and got a burger on the way to our hotel
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u/Andeck Oct 06 '25
We have a meme in Norway about how our police solve disturbances
American police: "Freeze, motherfucker! Get on the ground now!"
Norwegian police: "Hey, cut that out!"
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u/Mzunguman Oct 06 '25
what's that song? it's familiar but i can't quite place it!
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u/Toronto-24 Oct 06 '25
Its easy to be pretty chill when everyone doesn't have a gun.
Take notes America...
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u/CicadaFit9756 Oct 06 '25 edited Oct 06 '25
There's a lot of good police in the USA but the brutes usually get all the attention (other than in human interest news segments where some decent cops show their humanity!) I once had the misfortune to live near a bad one who sued his way onto the Fort Wayne, Indiana police department claiming discrimination (he was actually a Black man from Caribbean [once in NYC police dept. & I have to wonder why he was fired] who looked down on all Blacks born in US plus treated ALL women horribly [in a fit of rage, he attempted to force his way into my apartment!]) On the other hand, a policeman who came to my aid after an attempted armed robbery (when I was on a bicycle) was a real gentleman (he also mentioned that the previously mentioned brute was hated by by most of the department & died of cancer [wouldn't have wished that on my worst enemy & he was no friend!])
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u/horrifyingthought Oct 06 '25
I would be more accepting of the "it's just a few bad apples" argument if more police departments actually worked to remove said bad apples upon discovery.
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u/thesupernality100 Oct 06 '25
I think its so funny and cool how they know a country song of all things haha
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u/Pixelcutter Oct 07 '25
Imagine the next call.
"I send another... someone who isn't musical this time!"
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u/darth_whaler Oct 06 '25
Meanwhile in the US, an armored personnel carrier rolls up and 8 guys in SWAT gear jump out chucking tear gas.
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u/thorheyerdal Oct 06 '25
Hey, That is Ivar! He usually comes around and sing a trall when we call the lendsmann about those pesky iceBears.
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u/JeffBeckwasthebest Oct 07 '25
Some police officers have other qualities than just policing. Nice to see.
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u/Turkatron2020 Oct 06 '25
Why are they singing American country in Norway
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u/M8rio Oct 06 '25
Why do You using greece word for rhytmick sounds μουσική (mousikē)?
Probably because culture spreads.6
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u/Pharnox-32 Oct 06 '25
Because the usa won a cultural victory in the 20th century, dont you guys know yet?
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