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Originally posted by Xatnys
Russia handles many facets of their military and police training, tactics, and interactions with civilians much, much differently than what you normally find in America.
That's not to say it's always a bad thing or anything like that, just a different situation.
Real TV, Max X, and World's Wildest make a large deal out of it, but less because it truly apalls them, moreso because it gives their primary demographic(not saying you), the "red blooded, mullet wearing, redneck" a sense of pride that "I live in 'merica by god, land of the free, home of the brave! Where men are men, and sheep are scared..."
And all that good stuff.
Whatever
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Originally posted by Xatnys
A lot of it is... not illegal, I'll say it that way. Civil liberties is a slowly growing cottage industry at the moment, there are less things in place to give a civilian protection from or recourse against the government.
Very similar to here at one point in time. Most of the liberties we supposedly enjoy here are less the product of the original bill of rights, and more a product of landmark legal decisions that helped to define the scope of the bill of rights.
Does that sound cryptic? I don't mean for it to be.
We had some decent framework as far as rights and liberties, but those have had to be defined by various cases that brought the subject to light, and then went to court over and over and then were finally decided upon by a Supreme Court ruling.
Those rulings are the actual definitions we use when determining what is abuse and what is lawful.
Russia is going to eventually have something kind of similar to that.
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Originally posted by Xatnys
I agree with you there. They all get a slice of the pie to be sure.
Back on topic:
Yeah, but that's not really true. You can actually do a google image search and see that their police patrol isn't that far off from here in the good 'ol us. Hell, we even send them Ford Crown Victorias, normal standard issue.
Patrol is uniformed, badge, same stuff.
Detective is plain clothed, same stuff.
When you see them running around in all black and ski masks, you're seeing their version of CRT/SWAT in the police arm, or in a terror/hostage situation you may even get a glimpse of spetsnaz.
Spetsnaz is a special tactical brigade, they do work with the more mundane cops when large raids are involved, but they're not out there running traffic stops and responding to domestic calls.
They're for the big stuff.
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Originally posted by they see ALL
Originally posted by Xatnys
I agree with you there. They all get a slice of the pie to be sure.
Back on topic:
Yeah, but that's not really true. You can actually do a google image search and see that their police patrol isn't that far off from here in the good 'ol us. Hell, we even send them Ford Crown Victorias, normal standard issue.
Patrol is uniformed, badge, same stuff.
Detective is plain clothed, same stuff.
When you see them running around in all black and ski masks, you're seeing their version of CRT/SWAT in the police arm, or in a terror/hostage situation you may even get a glimpse of spetsnaz.
Spetsnaz is a special tactical brigade, they do work with the more mundane cops when large raids are involved, but they're not out there running traffic stops and responding to domestic calls.
They're for the big stuff.
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i believe you...
i the "real tv" clips it WAS a hostage situation...
the SWAT guys in the US wear "ski masks" too...
just like in the game "counter strike"
is there any rule against this???