American Reacts to UK vs. USA Police Equipment

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As an American I know that British police are very different than American police. Today I am very interested in learning how the equipment police in Britain use compares to police here in the United States. If you enjoyed the video feel free to leave a comment, like, or subscribe for more!
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I have been a police officer in London for the past 23 years. I remember the first time I saw a police officer carrying a gun was when I was on holiday in France and it was really disconcerting. Some police officers in the UK do carry guns but they are purely for calls where guns have been used or seen, but they are always available should they be needed. I have never been an armed officer and couldn't even imagine carrying a gun for work, it is just completely alien to me. We are trained to diffuse situations verbally and for that reason are generally viewed as very friendly and approachable.

JaneSfromUK
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Not every country is a gun happy country

darrencollins
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i live quite near an area in east london where an east european attacked people with a sword one morning, nearly de-capitating a young 14 year old. those people around at the time (not many but people were going to work) ran away. the police got there, they were unarmed, no guns or tasers. they ran towards him. the police are much maligned but they do a job most of us wouldn't do in a million years and we ought to be thankful for them.

aethellstan
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I’m a retired UK police sgt. I once visited police in Kansas. All the department were armed (at that time, ‘97) with revolvers, apart from one guy that had a semi auto. I asked him why. He replied, “Son, I’m the worst shot in the dept. So when the sh*t goes down I like to et as much lead in the air as possible!”

skipper
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Majority of British citizens don't have guns, plus in the US it's a police force and in the UK it's a police service.

alwynemcintyre
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The biggest difference in police between the UK and USA is training. British police are given much more training than their American counterparts and the training is focused on de-escalation and conflict resolution, where as American police sacrifice some of this element for firearms training. this tends to make American police depend on their guns when threatened which can have tragic consequences.

BourbonBiskit
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There's a massive difference between the US and the UK. In the US policing is by force, in the UK it's policing by consent.

fuzzy
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A tazer is enough in the uk because we have proper plugs, so are no used to being electrocuted.

candice
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You need to undersand that it's a severe crime to own a gun in Britain. I live in a house in a suburbs and one morning at 5am, I looked out of the window (had an early riser baby) to see 25 armed police officers quietly surrounding the neighbours' house, also 3-4 fierce looking police dogs, waiting for the word "go". Then they all broke into the house, shouting.The neighbour later told us that one of his "ex friends" had told the police he had a gun, and that's the procedure. He had had no guns, and they had found none. The dogs are trained to sniff out all firearms in a house. The police would have shot him if he had pulled out a gun and aimed at them. It's also illegal to carry knives on you, even if it's a small one. Police can stop you to check if you have a knife. So: some police have guns, if there is a reason for them.

watermelon
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There's another video where both the police is interviewed and showed to each other to record reactions of the counterparts. In that video, UK cops were very disturbed to see that USA cop is describing himself as a warrior.

dipensarkar
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I think the fact that the US police officer referred to carrying out patrols and responding to calls amongst the general public as being “at the mercy of the wolves”, says a lot about the mindset of US police officers. I know that the statement was made in regards to the idea of carrying out his role as a police officer without a gun but it’s still a statement that makes it clear he doesn’t feel that the general population are trustworthy and that he feels that they are no better that wild and vicious animals.

lynnejamieson
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There’s a wonderful scene in *Paul* with Simon Pegg and Nick Frost as alien geeks crossing the US famous ufo sites in a camper, when the two meet a highway patrolman at a gas station. They exchange pleasantries. The patrolman asks ‘Your police don’t have guns right?’ Pegg and Frost confirm this. Patrolman looks visibly confused and asks ‘Well how are they going to shoot anybody?’.

RalphBrooker-gniv
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Not ALL regular police officers even carry Tasers. Also, this video is from 2019 when Nick Ferrari of LBC was trying to start a campaign for ALL police officers in the UK to carry Tasers... Yet, not all of them wanted them! The number of Taser trained officers, including both AFOs and STOs _(Authorised Firearms Officers & Specially Trained Officers)_ throughout the Met POlice, in 2023 _(the last available figure)_ was 7, 591.

StewedFishProductions
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Certain police in the UK do carry guns. Especially in sensitive areas such as ROYAL and POLITICAL locations and some airports.
There are also specially trained police called Armed Response Officers who have access to firearms when needed, but are not on open show.
Only trained officers are allowed to carry tasers. It is a personal preference by the officer if they want to carry one or not.
UK police don't wear BULLET PROOF vests. They wear ANTI STAB vests.
The American officer looks like ROBOCOP !!
The American cop called the public " wolves" !! That just shows what they think of people !
American police shoot first and ask questions afterwards !!

enemde
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Only Tyler can make a 17 minute video out of 4 minutes of content

BigAlCapwn
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Considering that there are 4.6 guns per 100 British people and there are 120 guns per 100 Americans that's the main difference in why cops have to carry guns

juanamcintosh
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I never can forget witnessing a brawl outside the Harrow Inn Abbey wood when I was a kid in the 60's and the police arrived, one constable went to intervene and the older sergeant held him back, told him that's how you get hurt, they do not know who it is trying to grab them and will strike out at you., just wait and it will finish of it's own accord, then we can move in and arrest them without a lot of hassle and they won't end up with the more serious charge of assaulting a policeman. Our police know how to not escalate situations.

robertSibley-tb
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In the UK gun crime is very low, knife crime is much more common (that's why the police where stabproof vests)

MatthewWills-sh
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You wouldn't experiment with police officers' lives, you would have to remove the weapons from the populace first, as they did here in the UK after the Dunblane massacre. One school shooting was enough to change the laws, sadly the States seem to be used to multiple massacres. They love their guns too much to change 😢

JenniferRussell-qwco
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In America to become a barber 💈 you need over 1000 hours of training to be qualified. To be a plumber you need over 1300 hours of training to be qualified more I’m told if it’s red band or red seal something like that….. to be a police officer in America, you will receive 725 hours of training then given a gun and told the police the streets 😢

michaelatkins