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Police Accountability: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

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Police Accountability: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaD84DTGULo

Jun 01, 2020 · 12 points, 0 comments · submitted by seesawtron
I live in Germany and in 2015 our police, for the whole year, in the whole country only fired 88 bullets. Germans go through 3 years of training and have a lot of training on non-violent/lethal deescalation.

I also used to live in the US, and the cops there are nuts.

Jon Oliver did a good video on accountability:

https://youtu.be/zaD84DTGULo

bodono
Curious you went all the way back to 2015. Why not go further back to 1940? German police weren't looking too good then. We can all cherry pick data, but often what's left out says more.
mschuster91
We Germans aren't perfect either, not a single cop got prosecuted for the police violence at G20, and we routinely get scandals for Nazi cops or a lack of accountability...
searchableguy
There are still real nazis?
Veen
It depends how you define Nazi, but yes, there are still real Nazis in Germany:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-51961069

mseidl
I am aware of issues our police have. But I'd take Germany over the US any day of the week.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/fbi-white-supremacists-i...

There are a lots of issues with race and police in the US also.

viklove
As long as you feel better than someone
dependenttypes
https://www.ccc.de/en/updates/2018/hausdurchsuchungen-bei-ve...
> This was this the exact same case with Ron Paul 4 years ago but it seemed to hardly matter

Did it though? Did it? [1]

[1] https://youtu.be/zaD84DTGULo?t=29s

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