• Roopappy@lemmy.ml
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    10 months ago

    That checks out. I live near a college town where for 2-3 years there was a rash of “college riots” where police tear-gassed everyone in the streets when they felt it was getting out of hand. The solution to keeping the students from rioting ended up being… stop sending cops out there. Everything was fine.

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      10 months ago

      Have you ever been to Berlin at Silvester? It got out of hand the past years and got incredibly violent. People are shooting rockets at each other and into buildings, and it often starts mass fights.

      Police has nothing to do with it.

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        10 months ago

        Not directly. They can do more if presented. That’s overall the fact. I mean it isn’t allowed to fire up fireworks before 0:00. But everyone does it everywhere.