Your police forces regularly murder citizens exercising their legal and constitutionally protected rights[1,2], and experience no consequences for it as well as get to hound the families for free long after the media loses interest.

The EU has a public debate on issues, and consistently rejects them - which is the price of freedom, eternal vigilance.

[1] https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-04-15/us-police-shoot-man-d...

[2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/investigations/polic...