Norwegian Policemen haven't killed anyone since 2006

[Georgy Zhukov]

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/08/norways-police-havent-killed-a-single-person-in-nearly-10-years/

Discuss.

[bran]

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/08/norways-police-havent-killed-a-single-person-in-nearly-10-years/

Discuss.

they dont have people obsessed with call of duty becoming cops

[tomfriend]

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/08/norways-police-havent-killed-a-single-person-in-nearly-10-years/ Discuss.

they dont have people obsessed with call of duty becoming cops

Yeah, but when you have a person obsessed with Call Of Duty becoming Anders Breivik I think I'd skip the 'ain't we keen' backslapping.

[SoulMonster]

Considering that police officers in the United States have killed more than 600 people this year alone, the report certainly is eye-opening. Of course, law enforcement officials in the United States face greater threats of violence while on duty.

I think a more important consideration is the fact that while the States have 319 million people, Norway has only 5. If we adjust for differences in population, Norwegian police should have killed 9 people to compare to USA.

Guns are not central to police activity in Norway, which is one reason why the law enforcement shooting rates are so low. As in Britain, police in Norway typically patrol while unarmed and only bear arms in extenuating situations.

This was only correct up to a few months ago. Now regular Norwegian police is armed. This is a temporary solution due to elevated terror threats, but it is being discussed whether it should be a permanent thing.

Sociologist Guðmundur Oddsson, speaking to Tech Insider, said Norwegians’ higher sense of trust in law enforcement was perhaps one of the reasons for the country’s low gun violence rates. "Trust is an extremely powerful mechanism of informal social control. In smaller, more ethnically homogeneous countries like Norway, building that trust is easy. People feel a sense of togetherness for many reasons, including the fact that most people look similar and hold similar beliefs,” he said.

I believe this to be true.

In addition: less guns permeating society making the police feel safer and not having to rely to violence in their work and a less sensationalist media that creates fear, both among the public and among the police, no macho gun culture.

[Bumblefeet]

My scientific research has concluded on the following reasons:

Norway has an abundance of hot women.

There are no black people in Norway.

They use snowballs instead of guns.

Their prisons are vacation resorts. Why resist arrest?

[Len Cnut]

A more encompassing headline would be 'Fuck All Has Ever Happened in Norway Cept That Nutter Brevik'

[DR DOOM]

Well, they're the laziest coppers ever!

[Len Cnut]

When Norwegians get caught committing a fuckin' crime they probably sit and have an orderly debate over the merits and meanings of it, just Soulmonster-bollock them into submission

'Please, please, put the graph away, i wont commit a crime again, i promise!'

Edited August 3, 2015 by Len B'stard

[SoulMonster]

Well, it works.

[Len Cnut]

Im jus messin', respect to yous, nothings worth another mans life, its commendable

[SoulMonster]

The police in Iceland has only killed one person, ever. This came as a result of trying to get a person out of a house he had barricaded himself, and after he had shot and killed two police officers. Apparently, the taking of this person's life caused grief throughout Iceland. The police in the UK don't carry guns, normally, either. And in all of 2013 they only fired their guns three times. That is rather remarkably. And that's for a country with a population of 64 million. From 2010 - 2014, there were four fatal police shootings in England. By contrast, Albuquerque, NM in the US, with a population of about 1 percent of England’s, had 26 fatal police shootings in that same time period.

[Len Cnut]

I'd hate to be a yank, everyone always goin' on about your country all the time making em out to be cunts, no wonder the poor sods have got a siege mentality going.

[SoulMonster]

In a previous thread here some time ago I asked if the US really is such a bad place when it comes to police mentality, when population sizes were taken into account. It was an honest question, I had no idea. But seeing these graphics and reading a few articles, it is obvious that country has a big problem.

[SoulMonster]

I'd hate to be a yank, everyone always goin' on about your country all the time making em out to be cunts, no wonder the poor sods have got a siege mentality going.

If they had a siege mentality going on where they were sort of united in their patriotism against other countries, it seems this unity is somewhat shattered and partly replaced by an internal and escalating conflict between a disillusioned populace against a small minority of the wealthy and powerful who benefits from a failing democracy and who are protected by a militiarized police.

[DieselDaisy]

I'd hate to be a yank, everyone always goin' on about your country all the time making em out to be cunts, no wonder the poor sods have got a siege mentality going.

If they had a siege mentality going on where they were sort of united in their patriotism against other countries, it seems this unity is somewhat shattered and partly replaced by an internal and escalating conflict between a disillusioned populace against a small minority of the wealthy and powerful who benefits from a failing democracy and who are protected by a militiarized police.

They tend to come together when Uncle Sam is under attack. The British are a bit like this also: many divisions but woe if ''Johnny Foreigner'' starts criticising John Bull. You discover this if you read a lot of historians.

It is weird how they put American elections on British news. I do not believe the Americans are glued to their televisions right now watching Britain's Labour leadership contest. Strangely I find the amount of American coverage completely disproportionate to the interest levels. I've never seen many people in Britain who care that much about such internal American policies as 'Obama care'. Most Brits do not even understand how the American system works.

[Lithium]

Norway is great, I love living here.

[SoulMonster]

Don't be smug.

[Len Cnut]

I'd hate to be a yank, everyone always goin' on about your country all the time making em out to be cunts, no wonder the poor sods have got a siege mentality going.

If they had a siege mentality going on where they were sort of united in their patriotism against other countries, it seems this unity is somewhat shattered and partly replaced by an internal and escalating conflict between a disillusioned populace against a small minority of the wealthy and powerful who benefits from a failing democracy and who are protected by a militiarized police.

They tend to come together when Uncle Sam is under attack. The British are a bit like this also: many divisions but woe if ''Johnny Foreigner'' starts criticising John Bull. You discover this if you read a lot of historians.

It is weird how they put American elections on British news. I do not believe the Americans are glued to their televisions right now watching Britain's Labour leadership contest. Strangely I find the amount of American coverage completely disproportionate to the interest levels. I've never seen many people in Britain who care that much about such internal American policies as 'Obama care'. Most Brits do not even understand how the American system works.

No ones watching Labours leadership contest anywhere

[DieselDaisy]

I'd hate to be a yank, everyone always goin' on about your country all the time making em out to be cunts, no wonder the poor sods have got a siege mentality going.

If they had a siege mentality going on where they were sort of united in their patriotism against other countries, it seems this unity is somewhat shattered and partly replaced by an internal and escalating conflict between a disillusioned populace against a small minority of the wealthy and powerful who benefits from a failing democracy and who are protected by a militiarized police.

They tend to come together when Uncle Sam is under attack. The British are a bit like this also: many divisions but woe if ''Johnny Foreigner'' starts criticising John Bull. You discover this if you read a lot of historians.

It is weird how they put American elections on British news. I do not believe the Americans are glued to their televisions right now watching Britain's Labour leadership contest. Strangely I find the amount of American coverage completely disproportionate to the interest levels. I've never seen many people in Britain who care that much about such internal American policies as 'Obama care'. Most Brits do not even understand how the American system works.

No ones watching Labours leadership contest anywhere

Yes but it is generating some headlines because of that loony left nutter who is apparently a Gooner.

[Len Cnut]

I'd hate to be a yank, everyone always goin' on about your country all the time making em out to be cunts, no wonder the poor sods have got a siege mentality going.

If they had a siege mentality going on where they were sort of united in their patriotism against other countries, it seems this unity is somewhat shattered and partly replaced by an internal and escalating conflict between a disillusioned populace against a small minority of the wealthy and powerful who benefits from a failing democracy and who are protected by a militiarized police.

They tend to come together when Uncle Sam is under attack. The British are a bit like this also: many divisions but woe if ''Johnny Foreigner'' starts criticising John Bull. You discover this if you read a lot of historians.

It is weird how they put American elections on British news. I do not believe the Americans are glued to their televisions right now watching Britain's Labour leadership contest. Strangely I find the amount of American coverage completely disproportionate to the interest levels. I've never seen many people in Britain who care that much about such internal American policies as 'Obama care'. Most Brits do not even understand how the American system works.

No ones watching Labours leadership contest anywhere

Yes but it is generating some headlines because of that loony left nutter who is apparently a Gooner.

He's a what?!? Right, hes got my vote!

[SoulMonster]

Here's a list of countries and their "Safety and Security" ratings, which is sort of related to this:

Let me zoom that in for ya :

Besides doing fairly well elsewhere, USA is really not good at Safety & Security

[pugachev]

There's no way US is number 1 in health.

[AxlisOld]

There's no way US is number 1 in health.

Sure it is, if you can afford it.

[SoulMonster]

There's no way US is number 1 in health.

I think a lot of that has to do with USA having the highest health expenditure per person in the world. And to echo what AxlIsOld is saying, if you can afford it, you don't get much better doctors than in the US, with top infrastructure and access to the newest medicines and techniques.

[Graeme]

I'd hate to be a yank, everyone always goin' on about your country all the time making em out to be cunts, no wonder the poor sods have got a siege mentality going.

If they had a siege mentality going on where they were sort of united in their patriotism against other countries, it seems this unity is somewhat shattered and partly replaced by an internal and escalating conflict between a disillusioned populace against a small minority of the wealthy and powerful who benefits from a failing democracy and who are protected by a militiarized police.

They tend to come together when Uncle Sam is under attack. The British are a bit like this also: many divisions but woe if ''Johnny Foreigner'' starts criticising John Bull. You discover this if you read a lot of historians.

It is weird how they put American elections on British news. I do not believe the Americans are glued to their televisions right now watching Britain's Labour leadership contest. Strangely I find the amount of American coverage completely disproportionate to the interest levels. I've never seen many people in Britain who care that much about such internal American policies as 'Obama care'. Most Brits do not even understand how the American system works.

No ones watching Labours leadership contest anywhere

Yes but it is generating some headlines because of that loony left nutter who is apparently a Gooner.

He's not really loony left though, is he? He's a moderate social democrat, it's just that the Westminster political discourse has been dragged so far to the right that viewing it from that skewed perspective makes him look like fucking Che Guevara.