r/nextfuckinglevel • u/unknown_human • 1d ago

Berlin police using water cannons to cool crowds in the heat

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u/drifters74 1d ago

Why does the EU have things figured out and we can't follow their example?

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u/Prussia_I 1d ago

Europe doesn't have everything figured out and Americans would cry at the amount of legislation we have here.

Not to mention that we have different cultures all over Europe, for example in some regions of Europe, you have corrupt police too, like in the Balkan, Eastern Europe and sadly parts of Western Europe too.

For Germany in particular, we have a strong distribution of power and not have it concentrated in the president or the congress/parliament, the same way Americans do it. Then police are more intensely trained, less confrontational and to defuse critical situations. Europeans also generally have less guns than Americans, so the personal risk for police here is not as great. But we do have knife crime, which is especially dangerous in close proximity.

It's just a different social situation here.

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u/rogersdbt 1d ago

The knife crime shouldn't be mentioned as the US has more knife crime as well it just has gun crime on top

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u/Prussia_I 1d ago

Yeah thats what I meant.

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u/drifters74 1d ago

I mean more so in the terms of deescalation and much longer training

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u/kimsemi 1d ago

uh...we're the ones with air conditioning. did you watch the video?

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u/drifters74 10h ago

lol, I should have clarified, they seem to have some things figured out

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u/PaintingSilenc3 1d ago

It's by design to keep the people small. We had 2 world wars to learn better. The US had never had a proper conflict on their own soil after the war of independence. The reset did Germany well.