I can't be the only person to find it a bit mental that police have grenades, right?
this post was submitted on 16 Nov 2025
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There is a reason to have them, for SWAT (or whatever regional equivalent). They are useful for non-lethal assault of violent targets. If, for example, some terrorists decide to take some hostages, that's where they should be used.
They should not be bringing them to a protest though. That's not the place for them, and the officers should be fired and the department investigated for misconduct.
Sounds like a great way to turn a protest into a fucking violent riot
this is nuts. its and explosive and a hard casing outside of the rubber. I mean even with out the casing it would be dangerous but with it its crazy dangerous. I mean I would not want to be shot with a shotgun that was full of hard plastic bits.
Okay so "stinger" is apparently a type of rubber bullet grenade.
Not that kind of stinger
Yeeeah, they don't let you use dat no more.
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sponge_grenade
Main use seems to be to cause confusion?
As an American, I would like to know, is there any place in the world where the police haven't gone full fascist?
No, they're the voilet arm of governments. A police force is a sign of a failed state. You're just outsourcing your bullying and violence.
This chain of ludicrous events
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09-19/nsw-hannah-thomas-court-costs-dropped-charges/105794888
Senior Constable Christopher Davis, 33, has been charged with assault occasioning actual bodily harm and recklessly causing grievous bodily harm over the violent altercation.
The function of the police is to enact the violence of the state and thus by proxy, capital. Hence, police are by definition always at least some degree of fascist.
So far the police forces in Finland, Norway and Sweden seems less bad than most.
Yeah, who would have guessed that the Vikings would end up being the most civilized culture on the planet.
Finns weren't quite vikings
I like to call my finnish friend half russian so he turns bright red and starts throwing his arms around like a blind gorilla
yall require college degrees for that shit, right?
imagine not just hiring random highschoolers and giving them guns, wack
Yeah, it is a decent education that is required to become a police officer here, unfortunately some stupid crap is going on with the police here in Sweden.
- The requirements for being a police officer has been reduced in steps, this is due to the status of the police job has been lowered, so fewer people apply.
- This is infuriatingly stupid. There has been scandals where gang members have infiltrated the police, a few years back an employee of the police was caught letting unauthorized persons access the police database. Then recently I read that management discovered that their background checks of new hires was in some way illegal, and they decided to stop the background checks, but keep hiring new personel, only without checks...
Fucking stupid.
Sounds too woke can't do it apparently