Jake, get back to me when you figure out if you are trolling the liberals or the conservatives, because it's kind of annoying watching you troll both sides.
He made claims that German prisons were horrible places and German cops shot people with impunity. In fact, neither was supported by the facts. Probably wasn't true 40 years ago, either.
Joe, he metaphorically hit your facts in the face then kicked them in the balls then stomped them to death.
Quit opining about why you don't know.
You danced around the point, didn't you.
You tried to claim the reason that Germans have so little crime is because the police go around shooting people with no consequence, based on an anecdotal story from 40 years ago.
I pointed out, geez, the German police RARELY fire their guns. They rarely have to.
anecdote vs. documented fact... you lose.
Again, your ignorance shows no bounds. My story, from 40 years ago, about an experience that I was, unfortunately caught up in, was to make a point. This was during the Cold War, you dolt. During that time west Germany was being hit, regularly, on several fronts and it was not at all uncommon for the Police to have to deal with terrorism, Soviet-bloc countries engaging in espionage, the continuing threat of an invasion by the USSR, the Berlin Blockade, the Wall, a fledging economy still hurting from WWII, foreign armies stationed on their soil, The KGB, the GSI, the CIA, the DIA, etc etc operating within the boundaries of their country, not to mention East German citizens being regularly killed trying to escape the USSR AND those who had successfully defected to West Germany being murdered by agents of the USSR for having the audacity to leave Stalin's "Utopia"
Your "documented facts" concern a country 40 years later. There is no longer a threat from East Germany, the Soviet Union, The KGB, or any other intelligence agencies running around their cities. People rarely fall dead in the streets of Berlin, Mannheim, Stuttgart, or Dresden from small caliber gun shots to the back of the head.
I somehow get the feeling, however, that your unfamiliarity with events back then probably had more to do with your "unwillingness" to serve and you now sit back and pass "righteous judgement" on those who did.
Pity. living history is always preferred to reading about it, don't you agree?