Interesting comparison

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Japanese police officers rarely use guns and put much greater emphasis on martial arts - all are expected to become a black belt in judo. They spend more time practising kendo (fighting with bamboo swords) than learning how to use firearms.

"The response to violence is never violence, it's always to de-escalate it. Only six shots were fired by Japanese police nationwide [in 2015]," says journalist Anthony Berteaux. "What most Japanese police will do is get huge futons and essentially roll up a person who is being violent or drunk into a little burrito and carry them back to the station to calm them down."

Overton contrasts this with the American model, which he says has been "to militarise the police."

"If you have too many police pulling out guns at the first instance of crime, you lead to a miniature arms race between police and criminals," he says.

How Japan Has Almost Eradicated Gun Crime - BBC News - Pocket

But, but, but- only cops should have guns!
 
Japan's social values are far different from ours. Most Japanese citizens wouldn't think of committing a crime, for fear of bringing shame to their family.

It would suck to be Japanese.
 
Dat's why you don't often see Granny....

... takin' the Japanese to task...

... she don't wanna get judo chopped.
 
Silent screams
LIKE the rest of Japan, its prisons are strikingly clean, safe and orderly—and as quiet as retirement homes. Yet reformers who have surveyed some of the world's penal hellholes say that Japan's jails rank among the cruellest—for the psychological toll they take on inmates.
 
What most Japanese police will do is get huge futons and essentially roll up a person who is being violent or drunk into a little burrito and carry them back to the station to calm them down."

sounds more like one of their recipes .....
~S~
 
Japan's social values are far different from ours. Most Japanese citizens wouldn't think of committing a crime, for fear of bringing shame to their family.

It would suck to be Japanese.
Why?
 
Japan's social values are far different from ours. Most Japanese citizens wouldn't think of committing a crime, for fear of bringing shame to their family.

It would suck to be Japanese.
Why?

I meant to have to live in Japan.

No sex, no drugs, no wine, no women
No fun, no sin, no you, no wonder it's dark
Everyone around me is a total stranger
Everyone avoids me like a cyclone ranger
Everyone..

 

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