[mschuster91]

The difference is that here in Germany, our police officers don't have to fear that the person they're stopping is someone who is running drugs and already has two convictions, meaning any third conviction locks him up for life - so they can decide to simply shoot the cop and hope to get away versus a guaranteed life in prison [1].

Additionally, German police is training their people for ~2.5-3 years [2], whereas the US training is a couple of weeks at worst and a national average of 19 weeks [3].

The US needs to get a lot under control if it wants less police murders: they need to get rid of the absurd amounts of guns floating around, they need a drastic sentencing reform and the complete end of all three-strike policies, they (and fwiw, we too) need to end the "war on drugs", and they need to actually treat police training like any regular job education.

Unfortunately, getting the required majorities to fix all that is completely impossible.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-strikes_law

[2] https://www.mit-sicherheit-anders.de/

[3] https://www.spiegel.de/panorama/justiz/usa-kritik-an-ausbild...

[timeon]

> The difference is that here in Germany, our police officers don't have to fear that the person they're stopping is someone who is running drugs

Difference is that they do not except (that much) someone will have gun.

[martin_a]

Only emphasizes the point, that there's something very wrong in the US.