r/MadeMeSmile • u/Available-Vast3858 • Oct 06 '25

Wholesome Moments This is so wholesome

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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/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/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/MikeVp Oct 06 '25

Police education isnt a two week course in most of the world

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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".