US Marine reacts to American Cops vs Canadian Cops

all right y'all welcome back to common arms channel okay so today is canada day so happy canada day to all my canadians out there so today we're doing a special reaction for that now it's not necessarily centered around canada today specifically it's kind of just about canada so today we are checking out american cops versus canadian cops now this is from infographics we saw their previous video about the american cops versus the british cops so it'll be kind of cool to see how all three of them compare just based off of what we learned in the previous video but yeah if you guys are cops and you can sort of debunk some of the stuff that's in this video feel free to do that down in the comment section because i might try and correct something and i might say something that's incorrect but if you guys know something that's a little bit more accurate feel free to do it down below but yeah i'm excited to get to this video should be a good one infographic says some pretty good stuff anyway so let's get into it the usa has long been called the land of opportunity but there are many people these days that will tell you the american dream has for a long time been less of a reality canada on the other is often depicted as an easier place to have an existence it's a country with far less of a divide i thought we were still doing pretty good you'll still find it on best quality of life list somewhere in the top ten at the same time the usa makes headlines for such things as having worryingly high crime rates for a developed nation incredibly high incarceration rates and a health care system that might bankrupt its own citizens we might be being harsh here and we certainly aren't saying canada is a utopia all right so you want to be a cop yeah so from my understanding it seems like canada is very similar to the us except they're kind of like a little bit more squared away and more well-rounded or kind of just like u.s but not as extreme with a lot of things so i don't know i've never been to canada i don't really know many canadians and i've never really went into that sort of discussion and i'm not even sure what the population differences look like either so that might play a part in it i mean we both have pretty massive landmass but at the same time i think the us has a pretty massive population so the crime is going to be pretty unavoidable at least in some of the more built up areas the usa you've done your research meaning you've seen the wire watched all episodes of nypd and even stayed up late to watch reruns of colombo and cagney and lacy you are basically ready to hit i don't know that one well we should tell you a few things about what you need to do to become a police officer in america the good news is that you don't have to be a genius to land the job it's open to most people so long as you have some brain power and didn't spend your teens doing hits for the mexican mafia you can get along i mean that kind of sounds a little bit insulting they're kind of like saying if you're a potato you can basically go into the police force as long as you have a little bit of brain power so i'm not sure if it was meant to sound that insulting but that's kind of how it seemed you know you can get a law enforcement degree and this should land you better jobs but you can also apply to be a cop after high school so to get in you'll need a high school diploma or a ged which is considered equal to that diploma okay after that you'll be interviewed and have background checks if you have a minor offense you may still get in you may not have to be super fit but you'll likely have to be relatively fit once you get into the academy you'll have to pass some kind of entrance exam such as the law enforcement examination then you'll start your training you'll also have to pretty simple so far with a police physical fitness abilities test these tests can change depending on where you're training but you'll mostly have yeah reasonably fast and able to run one and a half miles in anywhere from sixteen to twenty minutes but you'll have to show your strength by doing a tricky obstacle course and on top of that you'll have to do around 20 push-ups in one minute and 30 sit-ups in one minute as we said this can change depending on the academy let's just say you have to be fairly fit to pass but by no means have to be an exceptional athlete okay so that doesn't seem that bad now something that i wonder and if you guys are a cop feel free to throw down in the comment section but i don't know if police have like an annual fitness exam because of course in the military you have an annual fitness exam because you have to stay within those standards but after academy is there sort of like an annual exam i don't know if it needs to necessarily be exactly the same as you would see in the academy or if it's just sort of like a refresher fitness exam just to make sure that you're sort of like up to shape so if you guys could provide some context or some knowledge on that feel free to throw it down below training will last around 30 weeks and even after you've passed you'll be put on probation for up to 18 months at the department where you'll be working that makes sense over in canada you can also start training at age 18 but you cannot hit the streets until you're 19. you'll also need a high school diploma or the equivalent and during the interview process you'll have to show good health both mental and physical on its website the rcmp says turning up to the interview looking like you've done nothing but eat donuts and play grand theft auto throughout high school will put you at a distinct disadvantage you'll also really say that on the website i might have to actually see if i can find that on the rcmp website i mean the rcmp definitely don't mess with ballots but putting that on the website i think is a little bit like kind of self-explanatory you know so have to pass background checks and again a very small infraction in life may not mean you can't get in past the interview and off you'll go to training school for twenty six twenty six weeks yes again there will be written tests that should not challenge that's a lot longer than i thought in high school as for the fitness test you'll need to do the physical abilities requirement evaluation and that will consist of doing an obstacle course push-ups and pull-ups in a weighted carry all under a time of five minutes and 30 seconds or less okay that's at the start of training at the end so we did do i think it was like business insider but we did a reaction to the rcmp's like boot camp and it was pretty impressive they did some pretty solid stuff the fitness training seemed you know pretty decent it didn't seem like too complicated but it was definitely something that i didn't expect to see out of a normal police force and i'm not sure how the u.s compares to the rcmp or the royal canadian mounted police i don't know if it actually said that in here but i don't know how they compare i imagine it's going to be pretty different wherever you are in the u.s like different standards based off of the specific police agency and you'll have to be able to do that same test in less than four minutes so now you're in the force that's kind of cool you have to build up first of all how much are you being paid the amount fluctuates across the usa but pay scale in 2017 said the average was 44 000 a year for the first zero to five years as a rookie cop other sites tell us 30 000. most cops is closer to 30 000 and it will increase by the year that's that might go up this is really really loud but your fifth and your tenth year but it depends where you are matters a lot with sources telling us that the average wage for cops in california is considerably more than double the average for cops in mississippi as for canada you could yeah so actually i don't think that's really based off of like how much training they're going through i think it's kind of probably just based off of the the cost of living in the areas of course in new york and like the nypd and in california it's probably going to be a little bit higher just because again like even the minimum wage in those areas can be you know 15 16 an hour so it's just kind of matching the cost of living check out the job site indeed and see police officer positions with a yearly wage of around sixty thousand dollars after we converted them from canadian dollars again it depends on where you work but fingertail tells us the average salary when you just join the force is around thirty seven thousand dollars just like in the us that can easily that makes sense for the amount of dollars after a few years it seems the wages for us cops and canadian cops are not dramatically different but which country would be better to work in we're told that a big difference in policing is the fact that canada has a federal criminal code while in the u.s things change from state to state this means in canada training and procedures are the same all over which can make life easier that's pretty cool actually canada the money for police force comes from taxes while in the u.s part of the money comes from the tickets people have to pay yeah okay that tells us that this has led to a stricter kind of policing in the u.s as the force needs to make money we're told in canada they call it a police service while in the u.s it's called a police force canadians adopt a kind of community policing while in the u.s the cops are perhaps less part of their communities then there's the matter of higher crime rate yeah so i guess that really depends on where you are in the u.s i've definitely seen some communities that really like love and and like honor their police force and you know there's a nice relationship and it's not like you know toxic like parasitic police force where they're you know giving tickets to everyone because they want to make some more money out of it but that is something to consider i i forgot that you know not every country will have the same sort of policing laws where you'll have like tickets being handed out because i've noticed in the us in some areas like maybe towards the end of the month you'll you'll start seeing more and more cops out because they'll start giving more and more tickets out i'm not necessarily sure how it compares with how much funding they actually gets it might not be the same in all areas but that's pretty cool how it is like a federal standard and it's not necessarily based off of how many tickets they're handing out rates in the us we'll let an expert explain canadians often point to a single major difference between our two cultures as a starting point guns are guns yeah easily available in the united states than in canada this environment leads to a tense situation for any police officer very intense he or she may wish to appear and this means the u.s police are not only in more danger but tend to use a bit more force we've all seen the videos of perhaps rather over-the-top policing we might also say that officers are in some part of the u.s under tremendous stresses yeah the number of no doubt we're told that u.s officers use lethal force about six times more than the average canadian cup the washington post told us that in 2015 u.s police shot and killed close to 1 000 people while in canada that number on average was about 15 people a year again it is really hard to compare the two like i don't know how many more guns the u.s has than than canada but you can imagine it's pretty substantial and in some areas especially like chicago where i grew up around like patterson new jersey there's a lot of guns there's a lot of crime so you have police officers that need to sort of be weary and be on the alert so sometimes necessarily like following the continuum of force would be nice you know not necessarily going to lethal force trying to use like a taser or something that's nice but when you're in an area that you know has a lot of guns it might make you a little bit weary you're definitely going to want to have some lethal on standby in case you do need to use it so i do understand that it can get pretty stressful for a cop especially in the u.s unless you're mentally unhinged killing people is something you certainly don't want to do and in the us as a police officer it's much more likely yeah it's pretty safe to say 2018 according to the officer down memorial page 149 deaths of officers occurred in the line of duty most were shootings but cops also perish in car crashes while performing their duties and other ways some deaths might just have been accidents but we're told firearms were involved in most deaths in comparison the canadian broadcasting association looked at the canadian police memorial statistics and told us in 2018 since 1975 a total of two hundred four police officers have died on the job of these 101 were homicide victims while 88 were killed in vehicle accidents often while rushing to respond to a call on poor road now as bad as it might sound to say that it's really cool to see that the number is that low of course it's not good that any police officers lose their lives in the line of duty it is you know pretty awesome that it's it's that low compared to the us you feel much safer going into the police force so i imagine recruiting is going to be a little bit easier for the canadian police if they have you know statistics like that because again in certain areas in the us it'd be really really hard to recruit police when you see all the statistics or all like that the hate towards the the police in the area we can certainly say that officers in the u.s have the more dangerous job by a long way so you're getting a similar wage but have a more chance of killing someone and a more chance of being killed you're also more likely to have to use force to adopt a more aggressive style of policing all of which would likely make your job more stressful in the u.s yeah that stress is killing officers in the u.s we're told one study cited by men's health said the number of officers that took their own lives in 2016 was way more than those who were shot there's not enough conversation about mental health within police and fire departments said the study it depends on where you are of course a recent study by the department of justice for instance said that the suicide rate in the chicago police department was sixty percent higher than the u.s average one officer worked for the fresno police department said that over his 35-year career he counted 14 of his colleagues that took their own lives on the job yeah you will kind of hear that stuff on the military side you know where they say 22 veterans a day kill themselves but you don't really hear it so much from like the police and like fire department or any of the other emergency services you don't really hear it so much as far as like the suicide rate and that's kind of unfortunate i think there definitely needs to be more spotlight on the the mental health and the mental health awareness for those guys for sure apparently getting the number of officers who do that after retiring is not easy to do usa today also reported in 2018 that more officers took their own lives 148 then died in the line of duty we can likely deduce that being a cop in the usa can be a very stressful job in canada in 2018 nine officers what is this graphic this was high compared to recent years what was that also was that animation many more cops in the us than there are in canada statistics tell us that there are about seventy thousand police officers in canada and almost ten times that amount in the usa other stats tell us wow considerably more officers per capita than canada but canada has a lot less crime we might also look at websites that list countries for the worst police brutality and next to developed countries sometimes stands the usa we're not going to go into all the reasons why this happens but we might say that any chance of being part of such brutality might be said to have future negative consequences not only for the victims but also the perpetrators even if they don't get caught one day it's likely their actions will cause them some amount of unhappiness just reading various sites it seems canadians in general have more trust in their police this no doubt makes their job easier yeah so i imagine it is kind of like a cycle you know if you have like these really stressful areas and i'm not saying this is true for all cops sometimes you just have some lousy undisciplined cops but if you have these really stressful areas and the cops are always going on duty being super stressed out and super like alert and sort of like on edge sometimes it might happen with a sort of snap because they're trying to you know be safe they're trying to be safe about a situation and they sort of take it a little bit too far at the same time when the community's starting to see that sort of stuff the you know the the trust in the police is definitely gonna go down so it's kind of like a cycle that you're probably gonna see psychology today tells us this of u.s policing recent polls suggest that the majority of americans do not feel that the police are adequately held accountable for their actions treat racial groups equally or use the right amount of force in conclusion with canadian police being liked more by those they serve the fact that they have less chance of being killed the fact that they deal with less crime and likely suffer less trauma and the fact that their wages are not too different than their counterparts in the us we'd say being a cop in canada is better did you find this video interesting check out our other video where we compare american cops british cops and as usual if you enjoyed this video don't forget so i think this i don't know this video did a good job of like being pretty unbiased which is always good to see but at the same time it wasn't like with the us versus british cops it seemed a little bit more of like comparing the the wages and stuff but i think this video does a better job of sort of exploring the mentalities behind the the police and also the communities and how they regard the the police out i know it's kind of cool they did it in a really tasteful way so really good to see but yeah it is a very interesting video i don't really know it's kind of a hard thing to discuss again in certain areas things are going to be very very stressful for the police the community is not necessarily going to trust them because sometimes they might take the force a little bit too far but at the same time you do have a lot of good cops that sort of get a bad rep because you have some crappy cops making you know headlines and whatnot for doing something stupid so it is very hard in the u.s i would say it's definitely nicer to be a cop or probably be nicer to be a cop in canada but the the stuff that american cops go through is it's pretty impressive to see how resilient they can be and see people still signing up to be a part of that police force now so for what i've seen if i was to be a police force or be a part of a police source anywhere it'd probably be the canadian mounties just because again there's sort of like more independence in that they need to be responsible for all these areas where you're not going to have a whole lot of cops you know there might be like maybe like two mounties for a specific area just because the population there is so low so you do need to be a little bit more independent so you need more mature people to be a part of that police force so it seems like they're doing it they're definitely doing it right so this was a very cool video let me know what you guys think about it down in the comments section especially if you are a us or canadian cop or if you're a cop anywhere how these sort of compare to where you are and how things are and how you sort of police but yeah i hope you guys enjoyed the video this was a very cool one to check out thank you guys for watching that is it for this video i will see you on the next one [Music] you

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Length: 17min 41sec (1061 seconds)

Published: Thu Jul 01 2021