America seems to have police for everything. Park rangers. Dea. Fbi. Marshall's. Sheriffs. City police. State police. Then there are countries like Finland where there is 1 police. The national police of Finland. Then there are weirdos like Spain. They have 3 but there are 2 big ones that do most of the policing. The polocia national whcih policies the cities. And there militarized police that police the rural areas. Why did cops evovle so differently eve though they perform the same function. To catch criminals. To keep the current government in charge.
It seems weird when I hear European countries have National Police or have the Police be part of the armed forces like the Gendarmerie. That just does not sound safe for any democracy nor does it even sound like something a democracy would have at all.
>>17438149It can't be geography because China and Russia are fuck huge and have centralized police. Yet Japan's is more or less decentralized. Can't be due to a Federation system cause Russia is one and like it was mentioned before. Uses a centralized police force.Maybe it's a culture of rebellion and disdain for centralized power. Because Australia while not at US level does decentralized or at least use to; it's police force into each province. Given both colonies were seen by the UK as trashbins to send societies restless and undesirable it makes sense they would have disdain towards the UKs centralized authority and built a contrarian culture around it. Japan does have regionalism prevelant in its culture so maybe that's why they also went for a little decentralized jurisdiction when it came to policing.
>>17438192Just look at the history of the nations to understand. Japan used to have a very centralised police force but after WW2 the U.S. deemed this undemocratic and changed this. Australia used to be 6 different colonies that barely co-operated not even able to agree on rail gauges and after federation rivalries still remain. Russia despite it's status as a federation has a history of centralised policing and a very strong central government.
>>17438149Policing in the US is partially a result of the decentralized nature of our government.
