Here in Vic Australia too. They’re mostly legends
The only people I know who hate cops here hate them because they either didn’t solve their issue, or they are generally known to act like asses.
It probably also helps that nobody carries guns here so they can operate on a shoot last, ask questions first policy
Believe it or not, it’s possible to act on a shoot last, ask questions first policy even here in gun crazy Florida. Literally everyone other than police officers do it every day.
Well. You could become a cop and change the culture
There are shootings constantly in the US though.
Here in Australia, I wanted to join the police but ultimately chose not to due to the bad working hours. In the US, I feel like I wouldn’t feel safe doing so though personally unless gun laws were refined with better gun control like in other countries
Here in Australia they barely even need to carry a gun
You can not just become a cop, and change the culture. This shows a lack of understanding of the situation. When cops come in, and do things that would change things, they get pushed out. The DA decides they aren’t gonna put up with corrupt cop bullshit? Cops simply won’t work with them on any cases. Throw them in jail for contempt over it? A superior court will have that over-turned. External forces will need to change it at a systemic level. The law needs to change, the structure of that system needs to be changed, and society needs to apply that by force.
That’s exactly the problem we have over here. You can’t become a cop and change the culture. The culture is mandatory. They seek it out and train it it, and the ones who won’t at least turn a blind eye to it aren’t allowed to stay.
It’s important to also point out that a huge portion of the population carries guns. There’s no reason to assume that someone armed is a threat at all, and statistics bear that out. In the south of the US even most liberals don’t think twice about the number of guns they encounter every day. The reason why police are a unique situation is , obviously, partially because they deal with criminals, and partially because of their confrontational and aggressive approach to most situations. It’s not so much that you got to deal with a good or bad cop. It’s more that you got to deal with a cop in a good or bad mood. They way they choose to interact with you has very little to do with things you can control.
We’re hardly immune to bad policing
Victorian police beat climate protestors at mining conference
Victorian police kettle and pepper spray BLM protestors in Melbourne train station - I haven’t been able to find this one again but lots of references to Vic Pol using kettling as standard operating procedure.
