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[–] DaTingGoBrrr@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

To some degree, sure. But I would argue the majority of police in the Nordic countries are not power tripping authoritarians. Some are, but the majority of them are professional and prioritize de-escalation.

[–] db_null@lemmy.dbzer0.com -4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I would argue otherwise. There may be less powertripping bastards than in the US, but that bar couldn't be much lower.

Police don't need to be individual assholes, if they follow illegal orders and are protecting their colleagues when they commit crimes the outcome is all the same. Their personal motivation behind it is irrelevant.

[–] DaTingGoBrrr@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Do you have anything to support your claim that police in the Nordic countries are following illegal orders and/or are acting like a gang criminals like the American police?

There are reasons as to why we don't have a lot of reporting on police violence or situations getting out of hand in the Nordic area.

https://www.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/comments/iixlje/swedish_police_intervening_in_new_york/

https://www.cpreview.org/articles/2020/11/policing-in-america-mixed-lessons-from-sweden

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/police-training-killings-usa-nordic/

[–] db_null@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 week ago

Nordic as in Sweden, Norway or Finland no. I saw it mpre broadly as Northern Europe, including Austria as that's what the article is about.

In Austria the limited statistics say that on average 60 cases are reported daily where police uses excessive force. https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000030899/gew-wie-steht-es-mit-der-polizeigewalt-in-oesterreich

Germany has been performing border controls that are illegal, and continues to do so. https://www.br.de/nachrichten/bayern/gericht-erklaert-grenzkontrollen-in-drei-faellen-fuer-rechtswidrig,VODHEOi

Also Amnesty has reported several times about the racist police brutality in Germany. https://www.amnesty.de/aktuell/deutschland-polizeigewalt-rassismus-lorenz-nelson

And the laws that are being changed by the government to give police the carte blanche to go further and ignore more of the constitution. https://www.amnesty.de/pressemitteilung/deutschland-bundespolizeigesetz-modernisierung-gesetzesentwurf-kritik