Comment on What's the point of American police saying "Show your hands" after they shot a man?
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 8 months agonot to be a stickler, but the source makes no mention of it being on purpose. I suspect you won’t find a source that makes that claim.
Also, as for the general use of force in Finland vs America, it’s two different scenarios. Vast cultural differences in general… but for some perspective… there’s 2 national and 11 local agencies in finland, comprising ~7.5k cops. (per statista), all of which have direct over sight form the Ministry of the Interior.
For comparison, in the US there are 17,985 agencies, ranging from the federal government to local police to sherifs and state police. All of whom have their own oversight systems. we have more agencies than you have cops. and all of those agencies have their own, unique requirements for training and qualifications. hell, some states, they don’t even have to have any education outside of highschool or GED. (actually in many places… that’s preferred. for reasons.)
Americans are also rather more violent than Fins. Just saying.
Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee 8 months ago
At no point have I claimed that they’re instructed to do so.
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I’m reading that assertion as saying they’re doing it on purpose. perhaps there was some misunderstanding on my part.
Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Well either they’re doing it on purpose or then they just are really bad at shooting and despite massive amount of training compared to american police they for some reason seem to keep hitting the extremities despite aiming for the torso. Watch this video for example. You can see the bullets hitting the ground because the police was intentionally aiming to the legs.