Comments by "" (@dingokidneys) on "Why Are US Police So Bad?" video.

  1. I am still wrapping my head around this. Sheeeeesh!!! I usually listen to Youtube videos at 1.5 time speed. I had to slow this one down to 0.75 to actually take in all the information being thrown at me and even then I had to back-track a couple of times to be sure I'd heard correctly or because I was still processing something that had been said earlier. And I'm not even from the USA. I'm from Australia which, strangely, seems to want to adopt everything that the USA does without much actual assessment of whether it makes sense for us or not. The US system of law enforcement has always seemed a bit weird to me with elected local Sheriff's departments and so forth. Here in Aus the state police, which is the lowest level of law enforcement, are a professional unit led by someone who is appointed based on merit rather than elected on the basis of a popularity contest. I get the US obsession with election as a way of selecting officials, but I think it is a method that doesn't scale the way they think it does. It was developed when the states were very much smaller and could not support a law enforcement 'profession. ' I think our law enforcement is getting worse because they are trying to adopt US law enforcement methods. There has been a definite up-tick in police shootings of people who exhibited mental problems, who might have been talked down if time was taken and empathy deployed. There is a definite portion of Australia who view the American way of doing things (whatever that is at the time) as the proper way to handle things. Personally, I think we should be more open to filtering what comes from America through a mesh of our own system of ethics and norms.
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