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Re:Police in Canada Are Tracking People’s ‘Negative’ Behavio... by chmod775 on Wednesday May 29, 2019 @08:58AM (#20039567)
> Police in the US are the very model of probity, courtesy and professionalism compared to almost every country in the Western Hemisphere

You specified western Hemisphere, which includes only the eastmost edge of Europe, but still leaves (half) of the UK, France and also Canada and Ireland. US police is hardly going to beat those on many positive metrics.

Odd choice of geographic region for such a comparison in any case.

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Re:Police in Canada Are Tracking People’s ‘Negative’ Behavio... by homonculus1 on Wednesday May 29, 2019 @09:06AM (#20039643)
"Worse than these four" can still be "better than most". There is nothing you said that contradicts GP.
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Re:Police in Canada Are Tracking People’s ‘Negative’ Behavio... by chmod775 on Wednesday May 29, 2019 @09:17AM (#20039759)
I was strongly hinting that he probably meant western countries or maybe just developed countries, not western hemisphere.

The latter is like competing with your college football team against a selection of mostly primary schoolers and declaring you're doing fine.

That's just not an aspirational goal or useful comparison.

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