• cynar@lemmy.world
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    10 hours ago

    America has “police by intimidation” as its default response. Most of Europe seems to have “police by consent” as the default.

    It leads to a different mentality. They might still roll out the whole cavalry, but it will more likely be led by a polite knock at the door, and an initial attempt to de-escalate.