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You want us to consider the “human element”? Okay: What about the humans who don’t get the kind of consideration you’re championing from the police, because “the police officer is having a bad day”?
If a citizen would get a ticket, a police officer should get a ticket. What matters is the offense, not who committed it.
This is my argument though. At least here (Denmark) you could be lucky and not get a ticket for this. I’d argue that you’d more likely not get a ticket as long as everything was civilised and both parts talked it out.
I understand that there are differences between cops and definetelly countries too, if it’s true that according to an other comment you’d get **10 years for this!?!? **
Everyone thinks the US has a monopoly on bad police, but I’ve seen it in Canada, the UK, and Australia too. From what I’ve read this is a common complaint voiced by citizens of countries across the world; if not Denmark, that makes you guys something of an outlier I think, so congratulations on living in a place with functional social systems!
Your surprise at the potential sentence is warranted, as well. It’s truly mind-boggling here sometimes.
You want us to consider the “human element”? Okay: What about the humans who don’t get the kind of consideration you’re championing from the police, because “the police officer is having a bad day”?
If a citizen would get a ticket, a police officer should get a ticket. What matters is the offense, not who committed it.
This is my argument though. At least here (Denmark) you could be lucky and not get a ticket for this. I’d argue that you’d more likely not get a ticket as long as everything was civilised and both parts talked it out.
I understand that there are differences between cops and definetelly countries too, if it’s true that according to an other comment you’d get **10 years for this!?!? **
Everyone thinks the US has a monopoly on bad police, but I’ve seen it in Canada, the UK, and Australia too. From what I’ve read this is a common complaint voiced by citizens of countries across the world; if not Denmark, that makes you guys something of an outlier I think, so congratulations on living in a place with functional social systems!
Your surprise at the potential sentence is warranted, as well. It’s truly mind-boggling here sometimes.
I don’t even think killing someone would give 10 years here unless it was premeditated.
As long as it’s the same sentence for the same offense, for both police and regular citizenry, I don’t have anything to say about it :P
Look up assault and battery of an officer