cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/48030154
“I had a case involving a 15-year-old girl recruited to shoot someone in the head,” Stockholm prosecutor Ida Arnell told AFP. “She was able to choose the type of mission she wanted, in other words, to aim at the guy’s door or his head. She chose the head.”
As a swede, what about the picture is different to what you are used to in America?
You can see their faces, they are clearly identified as police and they are not armed to the teeth.
I think this is a pretty good depiction of an everyday cop. Some have the utility belt, some have the full on vest, but not terribly different from what’s shown in the Swedish picture.
That’s riot response, not really a good representation.
Also none of those guys are obese.
I mean technically they are probably 30-40lbs overweight. None of those guys look like they weigh a healthy 180 lbs for a six foot tall man.
They were just karma farming by posting whatever would get the drive by up-buttons.
That said: I don’t know if these are special Swedish cops or normal Swedish cops, but the gear is more or less the same as our “normal” patrol cops. Bullet/stab resistant vest, pistol, and quasi-military uniform. Ours tend to only wear the high visibility vests when they are newbies disrupting all traffic because they want to play traffic cop rather than just control the lights at an intersection.
Again, I don’t know what the baseline in Sweden is, but most civilized countries tend to have a distinction between patrol cops and the ones that have special training to handle armed suspects and the like. Ours… we theoretically have that but also basically every patrol car has an AR-15 and a shotgun in it and our cops love to grab those any time they can even half attempt to justify it.
That said, I assume your special response cops more or less look the same (full tactical gear). You just tend to not see those unless there is an actual meaningful threat.