Reaction To The Truth About Safety in Poland
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- Опубликовано: 26 май 2024
- Reaction To The Truth About Safety in Poland
This is my reaction to The Truth About Safety in Poland
In this video I react to an American couple of have spent time in Poland and their thoughts on safety in Poland and Polish culture.
Original Video - • The Truth About Safety...
People are so safe in Poland that they basically don't think about safety. Only such films or reports from other countries remind us that this normality is not normal everywhere. For example, when you buy an apartment in Poland from an offer, you will never see information about whether the area is safe, only whether it is close to the center, school, shops, parks, etc. Security is not a luxury. It's the same everywhere. There are worse and better districts and cities, of course, but in terms of safety they do not differ much from each other.
True that. Whenever I carry a gun, folks automaticly assume I'm an undercover cop. Which I'm not, I have other reasons to walk strapped. Legally strapped, just to be clear. The point is illustrating your thesis: folks don't really bother with safety in Poland, cause it's considered a given.
Bydgoszcz… 😅
Pov: widzisz jak farmer z podlasia odjeżdża twoim samochodem (juma nie śpi)
@@Atomic_Homisiak Lol, co Bydgoszcz? Wlazłem w tym mieście w każdą bramę. W Polsce już nie ma "no go zones" czego nie można powiedzieć o żadnym z naszych sąsiadów poza może Czechami chociaż niektóre dzielnice Brna czy ich Cieszyn wyglądają miejscami trochę sketchy.
@@Pawel_Mrozek Żarcik kosmonaucik 😂
I remember one conversation with Brazilian living in Poland. I asked him what he likes the most - his answer was - The safety! He said that first time in his life he feels safe walking the streets, using public transport. He loved that
until "engeneers and doctors" from africa not reached Poland////they try.
@@benyo5720 But in Poland they don't get social support like in Germany that allows them to literally sit and do nothing. This changes everything. When you work you have no time for stupid things. This is how we literally get rid of high crime levels that in the 90th were a thing. Immigrants out of Europe are quite common in large cities in Poland but they are assimilating well if the immigration isn't too high. Probably the largest group of such immigrants live in Warsaw but you don't hear about any significant higher crime rate among them.
@@benyo5720Not true
@@Pawel_Mrozek they are forcing poland to give them equal amount of social money germany gives them. Being pole in poland is worse than being illeagal imigrant in poland:)
In comparing Polish and US high schools, a difference is evident. In the US, a fistfight often involves so much chaos that the police are called. In Poland, it's usually a quick exchange, a bleeding nose, and everything returns to normal the next day. (from a Pole living in Chicago)
Thinking back, when I was in primary school in the south of Poland in the 1970s and 1980s, fistfights between friends who had problems with each other often took place after school in the park next to the school. It was a matter of honor. The audience consisted of classmates from one class or two classes, if boys from two other classes were fighting. Often, after a few hours, the anger subsided and an agreement was reached. I remember one of my fighting friends asking those watching when the fight would end. Full culture...
So called "ustawka" :D
0,7 for Poland sound about right ! nazdrowie :D:D:D
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I've been living in Kraków since birth and the only unsafe thing you would need to watch out in Poland are drunk Brits, they always love starting up fights although mostly with eachother, and hooligans, but it is extremely easy to avoid them just by minding you own buisness and it's impossible to not recognize them.
To be honest I think most of the poles don't feel threatened by the war, but from the point of polish history we always have a possibility at the back of our head (even being a part of NATO etc., we had allies during WW2 aswell and we know how it ended up)
Hope it enlightend a thingy or two, and all the best :D
I don't believe in NATO allies. You must always count only on yourself and not be provoked into war, because everyone else will always do everything to enter the war last and hope that Putin will be satisfied with Poland. This is what our history teaches.
I have slept on beaches, in parks, on benches while traveling at my summertime photography journeys(at night!), with a camera and the tripod lying beside me in most north-west cities ... had no problems, didn't lose any equipment, only few times got unexpected "friends" from autochthon homeless people... so i can say it's safe.
To put it sarcastically, Canada's low homicide rate is due to its low population density. There are so few of them for such a large territory that they cannot find each other. 😉
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I will also answer with a bit of sarcasm: but did you know that there are sizable cities in Canada too? That people are not evenly scattered across the land? If it wasn't for the law and the mentality, they would have someone to kill.
Yes. Poland doesn't have gun culture and not many sketchy people on the streets like we have in Canada. I feel a lot safer in Warsaw or Krakow than in Toronto.
Ofcourse we have gun culture, like u froget all the wars and second world war.
you can have a musket or you can just carry a sword arraund
@@jarekpeee2 1. There is a lot of unregistered illegal weapon mostly pistols people just have it hidden for "THE TIME"
2. Blackpowder guns every adult can buy they do not need registration or license
3. After war in ukraine a lot of ppl made Sport or other License.
I have to say not many have guns, but yeah I would be more concerned about pick pocketing and house robbery, these sorts of crimes. The violent ones are fewer, but I don't think that just comparing homicide rates gives you the feel for safety in general as a tourist. Most murders are premeditated and so it's unlikely that's the crime that will happen to you
They have been occupied by 3 different empires and stripped from any weapon they could revolt with
There have been no "gang wars" in Poland since the 1990s. Organized crime, of course, exists, but it mainly deals with smuggling, drugs, and white-collar crimes. It is difficult to find cases of attacks, kidnappings for ransom, racketeering, etc. since the 1990s. There is a greater danger on the roads because the number of accidents and fatalities on the roads is much too high. As for war, everyone in Poland has the thought of such an eventuality in the back of their minds, but until it becomes a tangible threat, everyone lives their own lives and worries about their own affairs first.
actually since they started enforcing the new laws on speeding, the number of fatal road accidents (I think only on highways but maybe everywhere else too?) dropped by 1/3 so we are kinda improving ^^
Wtf? 🤣 no gang wars since 90’? Bro you should seriously educate yourself about what was going on in here between 1991 and 2000
@@piotrwachaa49 90-99 are 90s xD this little "s" makes a huge difference
Matę, about danger on the roads is shows as so hight, because in other countries is not count as here. Example if somebody had an accident on the road and will die after few days in hospital that is counted in Poland, but in many other countries will not be counted. That make a huge different.
@@kamilosowski3889 So You say 91-20 it’s not 90’?
5:24 We do not have an issue with the homeless in Poland because we do not incentivize being homeless.
We have it really safe here. You can walk in the middle of the night and you'll be perfectly fine. The worst you can meet is some drunk guy that just pass by - just walk around it. If you're in danger and there are any people in sight - they will react and help you. We have strong sense of duty and integrity built in.
About the Ukraine situation - we are not experiencing anything other than the fact we took many Ukrainian refugees and because of that you can see many new signs written in ukrainian. Nothing swrong with what, it's just the only really noticable difference. Everyone is aware of the war and we are mentally prepared for it, but we just live our lifes casually untill that happens.
You may not experiencing anything but me and my friends(women) were harassed many times by them. I don't say that they all are like that because it's not true..but I am not walking at night anymore.
@yoonji - nazirussian troll!
@ever_grey no diggers = safe!
Jeśli będzie sytuacja, że dziecku jest zagrorzenie życia bez wahania oddam swoje życie ratując dzieciaka i nie ważne czyje to dziecko
You are not Polish. You are prepared for war? Either you are paid lunatic or foreign paid to write such stupud things on Internet.
Bro if something like a murder happens in Poland it's on the news for a week xD
a safe walk at night in Poland is an indicator of safety
I couldnt handle when I heard that Poland is a place in Russia and have to educate the guy a bit.
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Yeah I didn’t understood what he was talking about 😵💫
@@AS-010o0 true. It was odd. I had to check twice if I heard what I heard:)
I didn't understand at all what that sentence meant. The first time, my brain skipped it altogether.
at 1:18? He said "...your gut instinct about the place AND Russia". Referring to the current Russia tense situation.
I live in Gdansk and I'm not really scared, I walk alone with my dog in the evenings or I'm coming back from a meeting with friends and I have no sense of danger. Of course, there are neighborhoods here that are known to be more dangerous, but I used to live in one and nothing happened to me there either. Based on the news alone, most crimes happen in houses. Because of alcohol, some family arguments, etc. News of shootings are the exception rather than the rule. When it comes to war, yes, somewhere in the back of my mind I am aware that it could happen, but I don't live with a sense of constant threat. In comparison, my sister lives in the Netherlands and there are shootings in her city almost every week and I think that is far too often.
Really?! I live in the Netherlands as well, came here 8 years ago and I haven't seen or heard any shooting so far. Which city your sister lives in?
Come on! Weekly shootings in Netherlands? Sounds very unlikely? I live Poland, where fitearms crimes are rare yet I would never thought that it is a problem in Netherlands, it seems like one one the most peaceful places in EU.
moved to kracow from london - very safe
Hey, girl from Krakow here. 😊
Poland overall is very, very safe. We do not have much illigal imigrants problems, drug problems etc. We do have some homeless people in big cities but its incomparably smaller issue than the western Europe.
We do feel scared about the war in Ukraine a bit, but as said in the video if war goes beyond Ukraine, the whole NATO would be at war with Russia so it would be equally dangerous. Ofcourse we have border with Russia and Bialorussia, so there is a bit bigger threat for us, however Russia does not have resources or people to invade more countries at the moment.
I also personally hate scooters 😅🤣, and it doesnt matter if its rented or not, people are just being reckless. But as long as you look around and watch where you are going, all is fine 😅
so the thing is that Poland is ethnically very homogenoius and theres no gettoized societies/minorities
also there is economic growth, so petty crime is at lower levels (unlike in 80' 90' early 2000'
thats why statistically theres much less serious crime than in lets say USA... because in USA majority of murder and drug crimes are commited by gang members from black/latino communities
also in Poland theres no easy way to get an firearm and light drugs are forbidden
i think that biggest reason for murder and killing in Poland is alcohol, some people just drink too much and dumb shit happens when you are drunk... also the reason are mental issues/breakdowns that happen rarley
so if you avoid places full of patological people and drunktards or football hooligans... youre safe
9:41 As a Poles, we do enything we must to AVOID war. Becouse our safety is first reason that our future is depend of.
It would be best not to provoke Putin with politicians' announcements about sending the Polish army to Ukraine or giving weapons to Ukraine for free, and instead enjoy the supplies of military equipment purchased with loans, which is expected to reach Poland in 3-4 years. Russia has not had any territorial divisions with Poland since 1945. As a frontline state, we should maintain complete neutrality, especially when we are dealing with a nuclear power with over 6,000. nuclear missiles of various types and ranges. assistance to Ukraine should be limited only to humanitarian aid, but without giving up the country's resources and maintaining all refugees who came to Poland on the same rights as Polish citizens.
As a Polish citizen and working in hospitality so coming home late by public transport and by "dark corners" I have never felt in danger of my life. And I can say I know that because I lived in UK for 5 years and really could feel that fear somewhere in guts especially in Birmingham for example so it is big difference. Now I live again in Poland and it feels safe again. Only change nowadays it's lots of imigrants from Ukraine. I have worked and met/spoke with many of them and most of them are awesome people but I have to admit that especially young/middle aged men are particularly troublesome. I have seen already couple of times as them being drunk or even drunk and fighting with some other guy - dont gonna judge who started it. But as well as just situation from yesterday in my city there were two 16-17 years old guys who just died in car crash accident running from police. I hope that war is gonna end soon and as per safety reason - I could greet any Ukrainian citizen to come here but because they like our country and want to live here and not only because they running from being collected to army and they actually hate that they must live here because those may change our safety feelings in my opinion
PS. And yeah I hate those scooters as well...
As pole I'd like to thank you from the bottom of my heart for promoting our beautiful country.
This is much more important to me since after 9 years working and living in Germany, I finally was able to to move back to my country ❤️
Polska to bezpieczny kraj-oczywiście jeśli szukasz kłopotów to je znajdziesz i są też pijane patusy, ale generalnie można wyjść z domu o każdej porze i wrócić bez problemów.
In Poland very few people have a gun. Mainly hunters and police.
And criminals😎
@@Quinnstown6363 to be honest? Most of them don't have guns. Crimes with the usage of a gun are very rare in Poland (yearly less than 700 in the whole country, which is 1,75 per 100.000 inhabitants, USA has a higher homicide rate (about 7) and crime rate with guns over 300 per 100.000).
@@pawemalz9774 true. also being caught with a gun by a police while commiting a crime is a much higher sentence by default so.... people just dont bring 'em ^^
not anymore
more than 150000 have a licence now and its fast growing
@@sirmarek78 its rising because theres threat of war close.
It is very safe in Poland, even at night.
Bro, this indeed IS one of the safest countries around the globe.
I don’t know a safer place than Poland.
Nie?wiele nie szukając na przykład Butan.
@@pewex7929 Zapomniałeś dodać jeszcze Metan, Etan i Propan.
Wszystkie one są w tej samej bezpiecznej grupie.
No ale tam nie można… palić.
@@pewex7929wiele nie szukając….Butan…😂😂😂😂😂
China, Iceland, Italy, South Korea, UAE - 0.5% each, Japan 0.2%. In Europe there is no less than 0.5%... although I didn't find any data from Vatican City XD.
@@pewex7929 Butan 2,5%; więcej niż Kanada, choć różnica niewielka.
In Poland will be the safest.
He said that they hadn’t been to southern Poland…Krakow is in southern Poland 😅
The number of weapons in Poland for private use is statistically very low.
"According to the latest Small Arms Survey report published in June 2018, there were 27.6 weapons per 100 inhabitants of Switzerland in 2017. The estimated number of weapons in the country was 2,332,000.
In the same year in Poland, the estimated rate of possession of firearms by the civilian population per 100 inhabitants in the country was 2.5, and the estimated number of weapons was 968,000. However, it should be noted that Poland's result is the lowest in Europe and the European Union."
yeah cause its Official :) unofficial data show something else.
I have to say that's fairly accurate. I don't know a single person who possesses a gun for personal use or a weapon in general. To be honest it's just very inefficient especially seeing as our laws regarding protecting oneself when sb enters your house for example and threatens your life are not in a favor of it. Unless you want to get sued by the criminal you need to use a weapon of the same or lower grade than them... And there aren't many criminals like that who have guns on them found by police are they?
The law should change in Poland. people should have the right to use any means to defend themselves and their homes, as in the United States. Weapons should be available to people who have been trained and have no problems with the law. There may also be problems if Ukraine loses the war and many former soldiers flee to Poland with their entire arsenal of weapons. .
@@andHAM8 "Weapons should be available to people who have been trained and have no problems with the law"
They are. Only a permit is required: it costs about the same as a driving license (with course) and takes about 3-6 months.
I agree with him, that if war situation escalates much, it will have consequences for other parts of the world as well. Because nowadays events and situation in various parts of the world are interconnected, much more than in the past. And various undemocratic, authoritarian regimes cooperate with each other. Also in case of a bigger conflict in the Pacific region, if it happens, it would have consequences for our region as well.
I'm from Poland and all i can say about thread from russia is... we got used to that... form over five centuries...
Generally when it comes to safety I can say that I always know where the car keys are... in the ignition.
To be honest, I think that the greatest threat to Poland is our politicians, all of them, and there is no chance for any improvement in this matter
Rosja nie musi zajmować Ukrainy by dostać się do Polski ponieważ Polska graniczy z Rosją i Białorusią. (Z terenów Białorusi Rosja operowała na tereny Ukrainy)
There's also Královec 😉
@@leno_o17 To miałem na myśli pisząc o granicy z Rosją.
@@hubik9847ah, zrozumiałam, że Polska graniczy z Rosją przez Białoruś, bo Białoruś to praktycznie Rosja (co też ma sens)
Wmówiono Polakom, że Ukraina walczy za nas. Bzdura mamy z nimi granicę przez eklawę królewiecką i ewentualnie przez Białoruś, która jest satelitą Rosji. Poza tym od wojny przez 80 lat Rosjanie nie mieli i nie mają do nas roszczeń terytorialnych w odróżnieniu od Ukraińców.
Póki co Rosja nie potrafi od ponad dwóch lat zająć kraju, który jak twierdzą jest zniszczony gospodarczo i militarnie, więc "good luck with that" 😂
Nothing changed in particular in respect of safety in the past 2-3 years , we only have more Ukrainians after refugees increased the number of already living and working Ukrainian citizens in Poland
re feeling safe in relation to war - only thing that makes you feel a bit eerie is seeing military transports on train tracks/highways. Lot of military hardware gets transported to and from Ukraine as well as between NATO/polish outposts.
Nie zapominaj,że co roku są manewry..nie spadajcie ludzie w panikę niepotrzebnie.
@@pewex7929 nie mowie o manewrach. Duze transporty/kolumny staly sie niemal codziennoscia. Dla kogos z zagranicy widok takiej ilosci wojska moze byc niepokojacy.
thanks bro, we doing best we can.
I'm Polish and it's safe as long as you follow the rules of life in Poland. There are 800,000 weapons among 38 million people, but we do not feel threatened on the street. As a citizen, I feel safe, but that doesn't mean it's perfect.
Brit living in Poland here, I have no issues walking home late at night, maybe after a few beers.
Contrast that with walking through Manchester when I go home.....It's night and day.
It's true, subjective feeling is important. Even more important than the homicide rate because aggression can manifest itself in many ways and homicide is probably the rarest of them.
About guns in Poland. Yes, You can have a gun/guns (even without licence - old blackpowder guns or their replicas). If You want to have modern guns then You have to go through a fairly simple administrative procedure to get a gun permit, but then... Poland is Texas/Arizona of the EU. A gun owned with a sports permit can be carried concealed.
Unfortunately, full-auto is not available to civilians with a sports or collector's permit... But SBRs, sawed-off shotguns, silencers - no problem, the same with optic/laser sights or lights on guns.
Ukrainians simply live here - that's it. As a Pole I can hear loads of people around me speak Ukrainian or Russian. As a non-Slavic you wouldn't be able even to recognize who is who - so nothing changed at all in Poland!
Poland is overally very safe with few exceptions. We have hoods where you dont go in the middle of the night, like you do not enter the lion's cage in zoo. There was a big problem in criminals in '90 but now its settled. About homeless people, you find them mostly drunk not on drugs so it makes this even safier on the streets. They will ask you about money with such a gentle way like ''Your majesty would you spare me so coin ? The weather today is very hot and my throat is dry so i wish to drink 6,5 volt ambrosia from local shop just for 1 euro''
I think safety depends on social issues. US may be a rich country, but there are big contrasts. It is a country with a lot of rich people (probably more than anywhere else in the world). At this same time there is a lot of people living below poverty line who are desperate. Poland has less rich people but also few very poor people. Furthermore US incarcerates people quicker (just my opinion) than any other country in fact it is the highest incarceration rate in the world (actual fact). This turns more people into criminals that otherwise would never become criminals.
it has nothing to do with safety, but when you walk down the street or in a store, the number of people speaking Ukrainian has suddenly increased dramatically. Maybe smaller towns don't feel this way, but I live in the large city of Łódź and I have the impression that every fourth or fifth person I meet on the street speaks Ukrainian. This is related to the number of refugees who live here
7:44 huge wave of immigrants appeared and changed a bit composition of population
Some people got irritated that it extended the time needed to wait see the doctor (at least when talking about public healthcare).
Some immigrants, especialy young man, who somehow avoided being drafted to the front line, felt to comfortable and started making trouble (with most extreme situation being: one guy got stabbed with a knife, when he said to a group of young guys to: "leave the girl alone"...).
But other then such incidental accidents, it's pretty normal and nothing changed. It's pretty safe here.
And immigrants aren't only making trouble - most of them are just people, who want to live and work in peace.
Being a young woman, I feel absolutely safe when commuting in Warsaw at night. By public transportation. I am not even considering calling a cab, becauce it is perfectly safe in the city. there may be some places in very poor neighbourhoods where you could be robbed, but this is very very very rare. I have never met anyone to whom something like this has happened.
The best way to check how safety is in Poland is to do a night walk. This is how I measure safety level and in my opinion in Poland during a night you can feel 100% safety no matter what time or part of the city. But to feel it you have to come and check by yourself
In Poland when you talk about gun, you have to pass some exams, psychological tests, police check you out and according to law, you must have legitimate need. Like sport license, gun collection club, etc. It's very simple to make it done, when you have no criminal record, your mental health is good and after few weeks you have your gun license. Weapons that you buy you have to store in gun cabinet with atests, carry only concealed and you can buy almost everything with single fire mode. In my opinion it is more simple than drivers license. I bought Canik, 1911 and AR15. Without any problems.
Thank you for that video! Greeting from Sopot! 🏖🍨
we dont use gunz... we kinda in hand to hand combat.. ;_
We do use guns, but we shoot mostly paper, steel and trash.
@@darek4488 key word is moustly....
As a Pole I can say that I feel very, very safe in my country. Maybe it's because I live in a village and I don't have any city nearby, but I've never been scared of being alone outside at night for other reasons than some fictional monsters (I'm 15yo girl). The wors thing that had been done to me by a stranger is calling me a "pokemon", which basically means that I look differend than most of people and tbh It's a compliment to me
Guns in poland are heavily restricted. You can't even own ammunition without having a license, and even if you do have a license you still can't own it if you don't have a gun for it. Getting a gun license is also extremely hard. You have to spend a lot of your time and energy for it, so people just don't think it's worth it. Oh, and from what I know your crime record also has to be clean, if you commit any crime you lose the license and can't get it back
About the war situation, I don't really feel in danger. I rarely hear anybody talking about it being a threat to us, and if they do, they don't seem scared, it's more like they're being sarcastic about it. The only noticable thing is the amount of charities for Ukraine and some signs being translated not only to english but to ukrainian too. I also hear their lenguage more often, but It's nothing that's bothering me
Pokemon XD
I must say, it does feel safe in Poland. Personally, near Warsaw, I often don't even lock the door, I leave bikes, gardening equipment etc. in front of the house in clear sight, and nothing bad happened so far. Pretty cool. Hope it stays like this.
I totally agree about the scooters, apart from few of my friends who were hit by a drunk on a scooter, the other day I found 16 of them in front of my place... They're discarded wherever and people who use them are usually drunk so they just drop them on the floor and leave. This is the biggest safety issue we have here in Poland so yeah, You can say Poland is very safe.
We Polish people dont think about safety....becouse for us its normal Poland is very safe 😅. As single woman I can walk at any time of day and night and nothing will happen to me. REALLY can recommend coming here for holidays 😊. Polish people can speak english as second language. We dont have tiping culture, also free schools and healthcare. Poland Is very clean and extremely safe country.
Gun license is as easy to obtain as driving licence in Poland. People are just more chilled and mentally healthy in Poland compared to the US. Also, public healthcare takes care of people with problems.
There's a number of papers proving that gun control does not affect criminal rates so that's not the reason. Also gun control laws in Poland are a lot less restricted than in UK. It seems that criminal rates differences are mostly caused by cultural and ethnic differences.
Unfortunately there are not many guns in Poland but it's relatively easy to get a gun license here. It's easier to pass the gun license exam that the driver's license exam and about the same price. You just cannot be mentally ill nor a criminal. And if you have the license you can also conceal carry without any additional formalities.
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There was an accident with some rocket parts coming to the Poland side and killing a man like 50km from the border of ukraine in the East Side of Poland.
Afaik it's the only thing that happened tied to war that we had casualties.
7:40 Yes. This is just anecdotal, but I've noticed that police officers seem more paranoid than they used to be. I often take nighttime strolls due to my insomnia. A few years ago, I could sit on a bench around 3 am, smoking a cigarette, without being disturbed. However, in the past year, police patrols have questioned my behavior three times during my walks.
Owning just a few breeds of dogs is classified by law in most countries as owning a weapon and somehow restricted. Because their brain chemistry and muscle strength create an explosive mixture, the same rules applies to human animals. And where there are few of them, or as in Poland there are no such individuals at all, it is safest place to live.
The most aggressive are small dogs because they have small brains and feel threatened and are very aggressive due to their limited ability to understand the world around them, they cannot do much harm because they weigh less than one kilogram, but if a ratter was given the body of a rottweiler, nothing more dangerous has been bred so far.
poland is an umbrella term because each major region of poland feel different. and crime would mostly concentrate in bigger cities especially if ritch tourists visits it
being muged or pickpocketed in smaller towns is unlikely because you would really have to make someone angry to make them hostile or walk into famous neighbourhood where adidas folks squat
i live near ukrainian border and other than slightly inflated prices and every bridgebeing rated formilitary use with a troughput sign, there is little to no change but preparations for defending were made and from time to time we see military planes patroling the area too
I'm from Poland and I can say that we don't have problems with gangs. There was a problem in 1990s but somehow it was solved aslo very few People have a gun. If you want to have a gun you must get permision. Pass tests e.g. psychological and others. I think there' s no consent in majority of society for that and I'm also totally against access to weapons.
People in Poland can get the license for guns, but it is quite hard to get one. You need to attend to the shooting lessons (I don't know how many) and get the psychologic test as well, which is not that easy to pass through, but the guns themselves are not common even around criminals to be honest. But I can not think about a situation where I need a gun to protect myself in Poland. The worst thing here is that you can get beat up with fists, and it's also not a common thing in Poland. I live in Cracow now, and if I see someone is fighting I am trying to hear the language they are speaking, and most of the time it's British English. Ironically, you can get into the fight quite easily in Poland, as poles are not a people you would like to mess around - if you cross someone's boundary, you can expect to see the fist on your face.
Just to put it into context - 30 years ago Poland was unsafe. But this has changed. Right now in my opinion - as a citizen of Poland who toured around the world - Poland is one of the safest places.
As for war in Ukraine - no, it didn't change much. We are still afraid of Russia, but this didn't change safety in the country so far.
About homeless people. I'm from Cracow and I was surprised in Paris with a large numbers of homeless people there. They were just sleeping everywhere. But they didn't seem to be very smelly. In Cracow they are here or there, but sometimes the smell they can produce inside of a tramway can be impossible. I wonder the reason, but I don't know how do they care about homeless people in France.
About safety - it was another big surprise in Paris. Everything seemed to be normal, but the number of policemen (5-10 of them together at least, always with assault rifles) was incredible. I was wondering, are they expecting WW3 or what?
Unfortunately, some Poles fear one or another hostile action by Russia and Belarus. Right now, a rather hot topic is the scam war. The fact is that property prices in the eastern part have fallen significantly and it is now very difficult to sell property in this region. I know this from several people who, for example, have been looking for an affordable price there for years. I also have a friend who inherited a plot of land there after the outbreak of the war and is still having problems selling it.
It's possible to get a gun license in Poland but it's not easy to do. You usually need to have a good reason to get a gun, for instance if you are running a store which sells stuff like jewelry, it's more likely you will get a permit. There are sobie problems with homeless but it's nothing comparing to US. Poland right now is a safe country, compering with 90`s and first half of 2000`s it's literally a different country.
It's not about guns, because in Poland people have guns and carry them with them, but they have access to illegal weapons
and drugs are a problem, no criminal will get a gun permit, for example in Australia, if you are arrested for violence and have a record and you don't have to go to prison and later you can be like an angel, you have to wait 8 years to submit the paperwork for a gun and it doesn't mean that you will get a permit
3:31 owning a weapon without permission is illegal.
To get a permission you have to (one of following):
- do a high risk work such as: policeman, soldier (or some time ago, taxi drivers were given permission to own a gun too, not sure how it is now)
- be a member of shooting sports club- probably the easiest way to get one
- have a proof of your life or your family members life being in danger (aka, getting death threats etc.)- you might get allowed to own a gun
Apart from that, every single person needs to go though a psychological tests to get a stamp that you're not some kind of maniac that would run with the gun and shoot anyone at your sight...
Not sure if there are any more conditions or is there a requirement to redo psycho tests every few years...
there are some extra regulation how weapons should be stored, but i don't know, if you can loose your permission, if for some reasons you won't obbey there rules...
Generaly, it's possible to have guns.
As for other times of weapons: you don't need any permission to own cold weapons (aka non-combustion ones: swords, sabres, axes, bow, crossbows etc.). You can even walk with a sword on street- only requirement is that edge is hidden/protected.
Bow is legal, thats true, but crossbow not (it is treated as a firearm).
Only a crossbow for underwater hunting is legal. Regular - not, and permit can be obtained, but you have a good reasons.
Also most black powder weapons (and replicas) are allowed without any permit (with exception for integrated cartridges - these require a permit).
Currently in Poland not many people have guns. This is due to the fact that after WWII comunists banned gun ownership (until then it was common to have them). After over half e century later the culture has changed and guns sort of move out from our culture. But that said you can own a gun if you want to. The difference between Poland and lets say US is that before you can buy a gun you need to pass an exam that checks you know the law that comes with gun usage, and you need to pass a shooting exam to check if you know how to use a gun. Additionally you are obligated to store it in at least an A1 rated safe. So in general you can own a gun here but you are also at leat trained how to handle such weapon.In US you can buy it not knowing a thing about safe gun usage. But thats surt my opinion
Safety has nothing to do with legal gun ownership, at least it's not suffering from it. It's easy to get a gun license in Poland. Some guns don't require license (blackpowder). Guns are here a hobby thing in a great part. Being safe country, very few ppl in Poland consider geting a gun for defense purpouse.
About this scooter thing - most people also hates them xD
We call it elektryczne hulajnogi (even if that doesn't make sense, because hulajnoga uses human muscles to move not a motor), and technically they are electric scooters, cause they use motor for moving.
So, if memory serves me well, they are illegal to use in this manner as shown in the video, it's just... let's say... low priority for police (which by the way has huge shortages in personell) to actually execute those... legal records (like many other things by the way) ;)
About firearms - it's relic from PRL (Polska Republika Ludowa), cause commies when they took over during WWII, began disarming society.
So it stayed to this day in... let's say, collective psyche of polish nation that only people in "power" could have one.
And also you would very likely hear phrase like "if people would get easier access to weapons, then they would shoot at each other on the spot", even tho getting replica of black powder revolver is very easy, cause you just buy it as any other product, and getting your hands on black powder itself is very easy also.
And you have around 500 000 of this types o handguns circulating around Poland (and it's getting more and more popular).
And official statistics from Police for year 2021 (I know, it's 3 years old, but better than nothing) shows 27 murders or attempted murders using firearms, so both black powder and modern (smokless powder).
Overall if you won't have unpleasent meeting with so called "Sebixy" (basically social pathology), then you should be all good in Poland, whereever you are, not only centers of big cities ;)
But the most important element of polish security is that our society is very homogeneous (around 96% if I remember correctly).
Poland has made a big step forward, compared to, for example, Ireland, it is a very safe country. Fun fact. in Poland you can walk around with a knife/penknife and if you don't do anything stupid you won't have any problems. nay. did you know that once you turn 18 and have no criminal record, you can buy any black powder weapon? Now compare this to these stupid regulations in the UK
A question was asked about civilian possession of firearms. Yes, in Poland you can have a black powder firearm without registration or a permit. It is estimated that there are 400-600 thousand such weapons in the hands of Poles. In addition, modern firearms are available with a license and are registered by the police. The only contraindication to a firearms license is a criminal history or mental illness. Anyone interested in this should look for videos about it on YT. Generally, in Poland you can have a permit for any firearm up to .50 caliber that does not fire automatically. That means semi-auto pistols and rifles are allowed. For example Uzi, M16, AK, you can have it but with single fire. To answer the question, people in Poland like the army but do not see the need to have weapons at home. Out of approximately 35 million inhabitants, there are approximately 700-800 thousand civilian weapons. Including black powder weapons. The number of illegal weapons is unknown. There have been no attacks using such weapons for a decade. In general, there are fewer than 20 crimes involving firearms per year throughout the country. Very rarely does it end in death, but each of them is widely reported in the media. Because it is a total rarity and usually does not concern a robbery but someone's life drama and a bad choice.
About guns.
Getting licence for gun is harder than in us (walmart), but you need to do extra steps, and local police will know you have gun.
BUT
You CAN have black poweder gun replica... same that allowed conquering continental USA.... no problem. You just need to be adult/polish citizen.
And you can buy such replica that shoots for like 200$.
Ofc such weapons are more unsafe, and way harder to mantain than classic 9mm.
But technically you CAN have firearms in Poland.
"Zgodnie z przepisami Ustawy o Broni i Amunicji, dozwolone jest posiadanie broni wyprodukowanej przed rokiem 1885 lub nowych replik tych konstrukcji. "
So anything that was made before 1885 can be replicated and bought in poland,
like : Uberti 1873 Cattleman Bird's Head .44 3,5",
Pedersoli Slug 12ga
OFC you CANNOT just walc on streets with it.
It is ONLY to use in gunranges, and events with proper control, safety ect.
You cannot just go to backyards and shoot cans with it.
You need to get a licence for a gun and if you brake the law, you loose the licence and guns. So basically people who own guns (not so many in whole population) are usually lawful persons, because they work hard to get a licence and don`t want to loose it by braking the law.
Yeah I grew up in Poland and I was 20 y.o. after millenium years ( 2000 and later) first thing about safety: Football hooligans, yeah I grew up in Upper Silesian Province where there is about 10 first league teams ( I mean polish first league not Premiere league). Now being after 40 y.o. I still don't understand, except people like Levandowski or Szczesny they cannot play! I don't even look at sunday football as it looks more like the side street market on the playground. - they cannot play football, BUT they can fight! - if we were walking on Saturday evening and football finished we better run out because whether police (chasing hooligans) or supporters would beat us up.... Another memory , while taking a bus from school being 17 or 18 years old, few skin heads ( no hair with 'R' scarf round neck) would jump in asking us - who do you support??? or similiar way- one would walk into the bus without any supportive clothes just asking- who do you support? - and if I said NOBODY - still wrong , he would be very aggresive and try to kick you, and next bus stop five of his mates jump in and they support ( another football team-whichever does't matter )- and beat you up.. In this video KRAKOV has got two teams - Wisla Krakow and KRAKOVIA and hooligans like to fight each other , so yeah , it was not so safe back than . And those hooligans were SOOOO orthodox! they would die for their team , I still don't get that, drink cheap wine, take baseball bat, where a bomber jacket and beat up someone... Ocasionally they would kill another club supporter and they would organise revenge ( an eye for en eye ), i was wondering - why they dont go to local boxing club and show off ? NO they have to get in group, beat up someone and show off ....
Guns only trough sport/club/hunt license, but black Powder guns u can buy " on face". After Russia invasion don't change much, crime rate went slightly up, but not so much to be noticeable. it's normal when you let in 2-3 m people in without any control.
Is safe as fuck...
It is most safest country on eastern Europe...
There are no homless people on the streets. NOWHERE.
Do not mix Poland with Ukraine and Russia. It's different states of mind.
Polska leży w centrum Europy🌍
Poland is a Central European country.
There are more and less dangerous towns/cities. I wouldn't say Cracow is the safest city (mainly due to infamous hooligan wars between Cracovia and Wisla Krakow). There are also more dangerous city districts that locals usualy avoid at night. But if you don't walk alone in the middle of the night and walk around suspicious places, you should be alright.
Yea - recently I saw a homeless fellow on a street in Cracow with some wounds on his face - first thought - drunken-fight another drunk-and-fell-over 🤔😅😒😔
About the stats - I recently read an article about how homocide stats in Poland are artifically lowered, because police wants higher stats to seem competent. And so they don't report the crime in correct way so the stats are like 90% for homicide (obviously plausable 😐).
It IS safe and not easy to get a gun. And good thing that it is as political polarisation is through the roof. 😕
Guns Guns Guns:
Why a u connecting guns with crimes?
Guns dont commit crimes, bad ppl commit crimes.
In short:
In Poland u need license to have a gun.
U need to have no criminal record.
All guns are registred at police.
U cannot sell guns and ammo to some random person (buyer need gun license). So there is no easy access to illegal guns.
Dificulity of making gun licese is similar to drivers license.
In Poland there was little interest in guns. Ppl didn't feel that they need them. So only gun etusiasts had it.
After UKR-rus war started, there was a spike with popularity. But it is still less than GER for example.
The true is that scuters are biggest denger in Poland😅 but shhh don't talk around. It is last sweet spot in Europe without even terrorist attacks. Shhhh,shhh🤫
I wouldn't say last. Czech Republic is very peaceful too, sometimes safer than Poland, Slovakia is fine. We have very safe country to live in but we are not the best.
I personally don't like when people are riding bikes and scooters between people because that looks dangerous. I ride in between people, and I'm very cautious while doing so, and it probably looks dangerous for other people. Safe to assume that everything's under control
It really depends, it's safe in most places though there are cities and towns that are incredibly crime-ridden such as Kraków or Nowa Sól, which is my home town. There is a lot of drug traffic going on here, so much so that law enforcement is too scared to do anything about it and quite likely taking bribes as well.
Aby polska byla taka bezpieczna jak jest to poległ polski żołnierz broniąc granicy PL.
3:20 - You can have gun but you need licence. Before you get it you need an obligatory weapon-handling course and MAJORITY of ppl who end up getting guns did it via shooters' clubs so before they started to apply for weapon they had experience and knowledge about proper huin handling.
Another factor is that we have, just like all EU states, social policies, so poor ppl are NOT desperate to get money to survive or for hospital bills.
Social policies REALLY ease the tensions in the society.
When you talk to us Poles about safety and how we feel and complain remember we are comparing ourselves with worlds best like Japan 0,23 homicide rate not those behind us.
Gun laws in Poland we have low gun ownership but laws are quite decent. Blackpowder guns for non scaled ammo up till 1885 and their replicas are available no license, other more modern guns there are few cathegories of licenses 1. hunting you need to be member of national hunting association pass their trainings and exams then pass psych exam, legal exam, gun handling exam, shooting test, your local friendly cop will visit you check if you have proper attested gun safe (polish cat. S1 safe), check with your neighbours if you are decent person and do background check for criminal record and you get license 2. sport license you need to be member of national sport shooters association and rest like hunter but to keep license you need to start in at least 6 competitions a year. 3. collectors license you need to be member wrong you didn't guessed its not national there are two gun collector associations none is national rest like hunters :D 4 .then there is gift or heritage category license its easiest to get no associations no nothing say your gramps had gun that you want to keep for memory sake bar is much lower no shooting tests buuuut you cannot buy or own ammo! There are more categories (8 i think) for historical reenactment, for teaching, for protection aand so on but most popular are sport, hunting, hoarding.
Speaking about gun crime - in Poland you're more likely to be killed by a falling meteorite than being shot by some sketchy criminal.
In early future this will change, when we start migrant relocation :(
Lublin is the safest city in Poland.
With the best food
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It was not very safe back in the day, if you dressed or look different you would be picked on and chased by thugs, there were always awful fights at night in big cities too on the weekend. I have been a riksha driver in Katowice and I have seen some awful stuff, even had to race away from football hooligans with baseball bats that swarmed at us from the nearby park. People would ne on edge going to concerts if any of the bands playing were in any way charged, we got venues invaded by skinheads, hooligans and drunks. when going to big festivals we would place the biggest guys on the outside and we would be constantly vigilant to keep our group safe (one time we only got jumped by skinheads when we got our guard down, like 30 meters from home after a huge danger that was a punk festival. Going back home or traveling after dark was always dangerous, especially if there was a football game, my mom always advised me when at the bus only look through the window and don't do eye contact if there is someone causing trouble which was very often. But I was always alternative so your mileage may vary and a lot must have changed, I haven't lived in Polanmd those past 10 years much so my experience is from 25 - 10 years ago. I had to be constantly on my guard against thugs my entire teenage life, it was so strange moving to another country and not having to deal with any of this at all.
Well. We're still pretty tradicional country. We're hot blooded too, but instead picking up a weapon during fight we usually choose an honorable fist fight 1v1 with people around as jugdes :)
We have gangs, but they fight only each other, fully respecting yhe people around.
Also, every brawl ends with vodka and jokes instead beef and wars. And thieves are considered a trash and are punished by society around. If You hit a girl in public then prepare for public execution xD
BUT if You're a girl bit You act manly and cause troubles You get the same.
And also nobody will ever admit it loud, but we were harrasing foreign people who would not obey our laws. When whole world called us intollerant and raw, we were just "heavy handed parents". We DO have muslims in here, and jews, and hindi, and every other religion (in a country with highest rate of catholics and churches!) and We all live in peace here toghether.
Everyone know if they start any war on our land WE will end it.
For example- few years ago an arabic guy stabbed a polish woman in germany. Two days later, for one whole night the whole arabic population living in poland was this 🤏 close to being crucified by their neighbours.
But they got blessed and left in peace but with message in minds.
World called us mad that day, but here we are, eating arabic bread with jewish cheese on a table made by ukrainian, sold by russian. We're peacefull, cause We've allready made our fights
It is also a matter of local conditions. Not counting crimes of passion, accidental crimes, etc., only the fight between bandits and criminal groups. In Mexico, after killing an opponent, you hang his head (or headless body) on a lamppost to show, in the USA, gangs shoot in the street with victims among them and bystanders. And in Poland, a gangster usually disappears and is not counted in the statistics as killed. We have a culture that "business likes silence" and still (although less so) a society that has a negative attitude towards the police (not social groups - society as a whole). Of the few deaths I know of that were murders (a few from what I heard from my youth, most of them were fights between businesses and once someone raped someone's daughter and someone else's girlfriend and disappeared, only one was classified as a homicide because the bones were found years later during construction work on a new housing estate. ) Statistics are always statistics. Does this affect personal safety?? No... if you're ok, you'll be fine. it's just statistics.
This is the answer why there is me in Poland compared to these three countries. If you took into account other countries such as the UK, Germany or France, there would be one more factor, but we will ignore it, it cannot be discussed here.
Statistics is slowly becoming a forbidden science...
UK annual homicide rate is 9.9 per million. In Poland it is 6.8. So its much safer. US rate is 10 times worse than Poland.
I love rental scooters. Don't you dare ban them as the French gov did.
In Poland we didn't had meny guns but after Russia started war meny started applying for them
Jedyne zagrożenie w moim mieście to dziki. Tak takie świnie z lasu. Chodzą po osiedlach i straszą 🙈
Gdzie dokładnie? W moim mieście jakieś 2 lata temu też można było je spotkać bardzo często, głównie przy śmietnikach, ale teraz nie ma po nich nawet śladu.
After the war started, the only thing what changed are prices and stupid mentality of politics, both went up.