Fundamental differeces between American and European cops

[gwl9dta4]

Well that other thread is getting busy and crowded. So i will start this one with my observations.

In the US, when i unknowingly parked in a no parking before 9AM zone at 8:45 in the morning the officer pulled up behind me, watched me get out, then when i came out of the post office i got a ticket. So much for serve and protect. Same scenario in Europe, the officer pulls up and says"hey bud you should not park there but if you are in a hurry i will watch your car so you don's get a ticket by another ofiicer". I am not bullshittting either.

In the US you can get pulled over for not wearing seatbelts. What a waste of time to pull people over for that. In Europe the officer will pull up next to you, honk the horn for your attention and motion for you to put on your seatbelt. Now that is serving and protecting.

In the US, a young man gets into a bar fight and is drunk. Gets arrested, and now has a record, which will affect his future. In Europe the Cop can see this is just a stupid YOUNG man, one which they were themselves, they will take him away too, but here is the difference. And this is from experience: They will drive him a couple of miles outside the city and let him walk back home, which will take hours. I assure you, you will learn a lesson, and best of all no record, no court, no biggie.

Well i hope those examples showed a clear difference for the most part. But just to be honest i have met PLENTY of nice officers in the US, so nice in fact that i was going to drop a bottle of fine wine off at one station. Seems like a hard job to do when 90% of the population hates you. But there is still a fundamental difference the public interacts with the Police here and in the US.

 

[Lao Tzu]

didn't you grow up in communist poland? wouldn't that 'harden' you to mild annoyances like that. and do the police actually act like that in europe, that sounds cool. In america there seems to be a #1/bully attitude here where naked aggression is something to be proud of. i don't know if other 1st world cultures are like that.

 

[gwl9dta4]

didn't you grow up in communist poland? wouldn't that 'harden' you to mild annoyances like that. and do the police actually act like that in europe, that sounds cool. In america there seems to be a #1/bully attitude here where naked aggression is something to be proud of. i don't know if other 1st world cultures are like that.

Yes they absolutely act like that. MOreover, there is much less of them. In the US it's like a Police state, they are everywhere and i mean everywhere. When in Europe you hardly see them. It's a totally different society. European cops will lecture you and maybe yell if you are stupid,Getting tickets is actually pretty rare, unless you blaintely run a red light and such. Even then you will most likely get a ticket in the mail with a nice picture of your car doign this and a fine. Like i said, i am still amazed at the ammount of cops the US keeps, it literally is a police nation.

The coold thing about Europe is that there are many areas of no speed limit, so you can go and get your nutts off speeding, but in the urban area you are expected to be fair and respect the speed limit. Cool tradeoff, "if we let you speed here then respect us and don't speed here", works for everybody.

 

[Rockafella Skank]

I think this is largely the result of culture, of which the cops are a part. That cops in Europe have a much longer leash than cops in the US is also a factor.