I live in a country where you can now consider police to be "on your side": in other words, policing. It used not to be the case, so I can appreciate this.

In light of this, I find the comments of the police officer invited to the youtube talk about how lucky the listeners are to be in the US (because police in other countries is so terrible) somewhat amusing.

In the US one should generally be terrified of the police, especially if one's skin color doesn't happen to be white. Plus everything that was said in the talk.