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Re:Minneapolis City Council members announce intent to disba... by Myce on Sunday June 07, 2020 @10:55PM (#23453161)
The Netherlands. I assume for some more Northern European and Scandinavian countries it's about the same.
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Re:Minneapolis City Council members announce intent to disba... by colinhb on Monday June 08, 2020 @02:42AM (#23454169)
I am an American living in Netherlands, and policing is very different here. Think Dutch police (or at least Amsterdam police) have a much more positive impact on neighborhoods than American police (or DC / San Francisco police). I have seen more mediation and deescalation between neighbors from police in a few years in the Netherlands than decades in America.

This is a tangent, there also seems to be way, way less paperwork in routine police work in the Netherlands than in America.

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