Written by John Vibes at trueactivist.com
With police murdering people on a daily basis in the United States, it is interesting to see that police in other countries haven’t killed anyone in years. In Norway, for example, the police haven’t killed anyone in nearly a decade.
According to a recent report conducted by the country’s government, police in Norway have been far less likely to draw their weapons on suspects, and they are even less likely to actually shoot. In fact, the report found that Norway’s police only fired their guns in two situations last year, neither case resulting in a fatality.
There are many differences in culture and policy that contribute to the lower occurrence of police murders in Norway, but one obvious factor is that police in Norway rarely actually have their guns on them. While it is truly every human’s right to own and carry tools of self-defense like guns, it does seem that preventing police from having guns in most situations will allow them to resolve a conflict without escalating it.
In the US, police are trained to shoot first and ask questions later and are programmed to think that every civilian is a potential criminal or attacker. However, this type of mentality is counter-productive, and is not at all necessary. There are other solutions possible that don’t involve immediate violence.
For example, Dale Brown of Detroit’s “threat management center” has shown that crime can be stopped and lives can be saved by independent people using nonlethal tactics. In areas of Detroit where police don’t answer 911 calls, Dale Brown took matters into his own hands and started taking those calls himself, and because Dale was not “above the law” as police officers claim to be, he had to solve these crimes without hurting people, because he would actually be held accountable for his actions.
Dale has also been able to service poor neighborhoods for free, by financing his business through providing security for high-income areas.
Check out Dale and his work in the video below to learn how protection without violence is possible.
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Well also have to remember that it is so much hardere to get papers fot Guns and weapons here in norway then in the us, so the police has a lot less to gear from the public
This is no longer quite accurate. Norwegian police forces have been generally armed due to increased terrorism threat since late 2014. They also, surprisingly enough, carry their weapons loaded with a round in the chamber – which is more ‘prepared’ than even our armed forces carry their weapons except from when they are going into an area where they are certain to come into engagement.
It is not actually difficult to buy weapons in Norway. The requirements are that you have to be mentally competent and not possess a criminal record, and having a hunting license (for rifles and shotguns) or membership in a gun club for at least 6 months.
That aside – yes, Norway has very few incidents of their police force using their weapons, but this is also related to our very low incidence rate of violent robbery and murder, not just our police force training.
First of all, the picture is not of a Norwegian police officer. Also, yes, Norwegian police have until recently not been armed (but they have had access to weapons in their vehicles). Norway is a small country (around 5 million) and there is a relatively strict gun control policy, so it shouldn’t come as any huge surprise that the death toll due to police firing their guns is low. However, Norway does have a history of police brutality. It is also criticized for keeping people in holding cells for extended periods of time without trial (a human rights abuse). After WWII the Norwegian police were never held accountable for their role under the German occupation, and many of these officers were employed well into the 1970’s and 1980’s. Not surprisingly, in Bergen – during mentioned period – there was a scandal relating to scores of people experiencing police brutality, and likewise in Oslo, activists in the 1980’s and 1990’s were violently attacked on countless occasions, arrested and sentenced on trumped up charges, simply for protesting. There is no particular reason to paint a picture of Norway as some kind of utopia where police are concerned. There have been reforms, and they are relatively well educated (3 years), which guarantees a degree of professionalism. But don’t kid yourselves, cops are cops.
The temptation to abuse is there. Power does corrupt.
We don’t have a mixed race or multicultural society either.
i think this is a great idea, i live in metro detroit, the area of “violence” is only expanding. if this guy and his followers can grow larger, expand, and keep to it, they can make detroit itself a better place to be. if its possible in detroit, its possible anywhere. i am aware that there is worse places to be, but detroit is a VERY good place to start. i support this man and all of his goals, accomplishments, and beleifs.
I’m from the east side of Oslo, Norway and can testify that oure cops are total racist jearks and that oure laws apply difrently in difrent neighbourhood in the same city (not cool). Now the pigs have Glocks with a bullet in the chamber.They say it for fighting terrorism, but we all know it’s a lie, you can’t stop terrorism with guns. It’s probably not long before the piggies start shooting oure kids for suspicions of non violent crimes.
Just what the fuck are you thinking the norwegian cops arent racist the same laws is the same for everyone and the cops never go around ready to shot their guns are at safety and most cases they dont even touches the guns before they get threatened with a gun