These stories were in Paris and Sydney. No US at all. Plenty of recent Australian police brutality against youth and/or indigenous peoples in Australia too. Head stomping and despicable acts that are attempted to cover up - public video footage often the only reason police can’t hide and lie. Definitely there are countries that have far fewer conscious-less and completely untrained officers. Many many countries even in the EU have significant police corruption. Democracy has failed significantly to build strong police forces that are built for the community and respect the community. They are trained and exist today to use excessive force - that any mid-IQ individual would never deem as appropriate - yet they hype up their recruits, give them an ‘us vs them’, ‘we’re always right, their always trying to disobey’, ‘used against you, but not for you’ mentality. It’s sickening. Domestic violence, meth and drug violence, horrific car accidents, murder and violent crime - sure are tough situations. Nursing home patients or your every day citizen are not trying to kill police or break laws or create a hard time.. they just want to get on with their day. Police are trained and indoctrinated in western democracies that citizens are all offensive and high threat. Not part of their community or just regular people. Everyone breaks laws.. there are so many laws you can’t not break multiple a week. Most laws don’t matter or aren’t known - why, because there are too many and the majority of people aren’t trying to cause problems. The laws were created to handle rare edge cases - not the 99.99% reality. If you put an officer offside, they will always have countless offences to write up against you — to show you who is boss and they are powerful.. aka. pissing contest.

But sure. It’s a wider cultural policing issue - however there are good cops and many interactions are reasonable enough day to day. If I hire a murder, train them, give them a weapon, and tell them they are powerful - who is at fault? If I hire someone who commits crimes for my business, am I responsible? Politicians, police unions, officers and any police leadership roles should all be accountable. No questions. They are arming poorly trained violent individuals. The worst part is the cover up and the officers lying for each other - and the legal assumption that police under oath are honest. They are regularly not. Again, it’s skewed against the public.