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As an American, it amazes me what a stereotypical group of police officers look like in Sweden (this preview image) compared to what American police officers look like.
As a swede, what about the picture is different to what you are used to in America?
You can see their faces, they are clearly identified as police and they are not armed to the teeth.
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That's riot response, not really a good representation.
Also none of those guys are obese.
I mean technically they are probably 30-40lbs overweight. None of those guys look like they weigh a healthy 180 lbs for a six foot tall man.
They were just karma farming by posting whatever would get the drive by up-buttons.
That said: I don't know if these are special Swedish cops or normal Swedish cops, but the gear is more or less the same as our "normal" patrol cops. Bullet/stab resistant vest, pistol, and quasi-military uniform. Ours tend to only wear the high visibility vests when they are newbies disrupting all traffic because they want to play traffic cop rather than just control the lights at an intersection.
Again, I don't know what the baseline in Sweden is, but most civilized countries tend to have a distinction between patrol cops and the ones that have special training to handle armed suspects and the like. Ours... we theoretically have that but also basically every patrol car has an AR-15 and a shotgun in it and our cops love to grab those any time they can even half attempt to justify it.
That said, I assume your special response cops more or less look the same (full tactical gear). You just tend to not see those unless there is an actual meaningful threat.
Because they aren't beating up protesters?
The sad thing is 20+ years ago, our cops looked more like this and less militarized.