Its not fair to compare completely different countries/cultures but when I read a headline like that I cannot help but do a quick study. Utah Population: around 3M 2014 police kills: 13
Germany population: around 80M 2012 police kills: 3 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_killings_by_law_enforcement_officers_in_Germany#2012
Germany gets a really bad rap, ya know after 2 world wars and a holocaust, but its still about 112 times safer than Utah for this one statistic...
Search for Jakob Von Metzler (I am on mobile). It's a case of a boy kidnapping. The kidnapper was caught, didn't want to tell the officers where he hid the kid. So one of the officers threatened him with pain. He told them and they found the kid (already dead). Kidnapper got sent to jail. The crazy part? The officer was charged because he threatened the kidnapper with pain if he didn't tell them. Will that ever happen in the US? Nope
Are you saying it was wrong for charges to be brought because of the threat? It should have been disregarded because it involved a child kidnapping? What if the police had the wrong man, is it still ok to threaten?
What if it wasnt a child kidnapping but some other crime? Still ok to threaten? Slippy slope there isnt it. As i understand from Wikipedia Germany got a human rights caution and he was awarded 3k for emotional damages.
related:
http://mic.com/articles/104096/there-s-a-suicide-epidemic-in-utah-and-one-neuroscientist-thinks-he-knows-why perhaps homicide (police in this case) is also linked to altitude? (removing tongue from cheek)