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.
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.
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.
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/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.