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Originally Posted by wittynickname

Because in the US, for black men and women, a large number of officers are regularly stopping them, frisking them, harassing them, shooting at them without real cause, simply for sitting on a bench, kissing their significant other in a public place, buying a BB gun at a Walmart. Police have no one to blame but their own when minorities in this country treat them as the enemy.

I haven't been to Canada in quite some time, but I'd imagine it isn't a weekly occurrence up there for an officer to wrongly arrest, harass, or even murder someone. Down here it's all part of the same old, same old. Yes, there are many good, well meaning police officers. But there's a disturbing number of officers who were poorly trained, trigger happy, and intoxicated by the power of the position.

Well that is sad to hear and I understand the huge difference between policing here and in the U.S. There are still bad officers here but for the most part I would like to think we have got it right.