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Does this still run true today? (feddit.nu)
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I know it's 100% stereo types but I found it deep in my meme collection and wanted to share!

Text reading "Heaven is where the police are British, the cooks are French, the mechanics German, the lovers Italian and it's all organised by the Swiss. Hell is where the chefs are British, the mechanics French, the lover's Swiss, the police German and it's all organised by the Italians."
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[–] 5 points 15 hours ago* (8 children)

Where? In Madeupland? The United Kingdom of Doesn't Exist and Northern Imagination?

Our police may not be as bad as American police but they're certainly not dutiful, helpful, or measured in force.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institutional_racism_in_the_Metropolitan_Police

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_killings_by_law_enforcement_officers_in_the_United_Kingdom

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoot-to-kill_policy_in_Northern_Ireland

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UK_undercover_policing_scandal

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Custodial_deaths_in_the_United_Kingdom

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police_corruption#United_Kingdom

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_enforcement_in_the_United_Kingdom#Issues

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  • [–] 3 points 15 hours ago (7 children)

    Shit…USA, UK…are there any other countries in the world to consider?

    Ok, to be serious, I have heard much better stories of Japanese police, German police, New Zealand police, and several others. I definitely didn’t plan to include the UK’s Zionists in my “good examples”.

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  • [–] 3 points 13 hours ago

    Japanese police are famous for only investigating crimes they are confident they can solve. Also for finding a culprit once they start investigating, even if there isn't enough evidence to convict. Something about losing face if you accuse someone and turns out it's not true.

    So yeah, you may find individual OK cops, maybe even good. But I'm yet to see evidence of a good police force.

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  • [–] 3 points 15 hours ago (4 children)

    It's a thread about British police...

    But while we're here, none of your examples fit the description either.

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  • [–] 3 points 14 hours ago (3 children)

    No it isn’t. The meme image collects a bunch of European nationalities and isn’t even specifically about cops. The top comment here is about police getting into heaven. Maybe most comments are about American or UK cops, but that’s because that’s where the complaints are.

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  • [–] 1 point 14 hours ago (2 children)

    1. Heaven is where the police are British

    2. ...why would police be allowed into heaven?

    3. It feels like an easy upvote as an American, but…there are countries where police are dutiful, helpful, and measured in force.

    ...

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  • [–] 3 points 13 hours ago* (1 child)
    1. | Heaven is where the police are British
    2. | …why would police be allowed into heaven?
    3. | It feels like an easy upvote as an American, but…there are countries where police are dutiful, helpful, and measured in force.

    The second line implies there isn't a single good cop in the entire world that would get into heaven. Otherwise it would have said "why would British police be allowed into heaven?".

    So this entire comment threat is about every single police on Earth.

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