That’s a surprising pair of crimes to equate, as to me they warrant very different police responses. Police violence ought to be a last-resort tool to e.g. prevent further crime or injury to innocents. Not as a punishment that scales with the abhorrence (or moral panic) of the crime.

There’s no need to send the swat team for a non-violent non-organised criminal, monster though they may be.

> I highly doubt

At least on paper UK police aim to take a more evidence-based light-touch community-building approach to policing, so I'd be curious what reasons you have to doubt this claim?

The assumption that US morality and culture applies globally is tiring and misses out on an opportunity for learning through comparison.