• Rayquetzalcoatl
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    3 hours ago

    I can’t be the only person to find it a bit mental that police have grenades, right?

  • Mark with a Z@suppo.fi
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    6 hours ago

    Okay so “stinger” is apparently a type of rubber bullet grenade.

    Not that kind of stinger

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    6 hours ago

    As an American, I would like to know, is there any place in the world where the police haven’t gone full fascist?

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      5 hours ago

      So far the police forces in Finland, Norway and Sweden seems less bad than most.

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        yall require college degrees for that shit, right?

        imagine not just hiring random highschoolers and giving them guns, wack

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          Yeah, it is a decent education that is required to become a police officer here, unfortunately some stupid crap is going on with the police here in Sweden.

          1. The requirements for being a police officer has been reduced in steps, this is due to the status of the police job has been lowered, so fewer people apply.
          2. This is infuriatingly stupid. There has been scandals where gang members have infiltrated the police, a few years back an employee of the police was caught letting unauthorized persons access the police database. Then recently I read that management discovered that their background checks of new hires was in some way illegal, and they decided to stop the background checks, but keep hiring new personel, only without checks…

          Fucking stupid.

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        4 hours ago

        Yeah, who would have guessed that the Vikings would end up being the most civilized culture on the planet.