Reddit mentions of Shaolin Chin Na Fa: Art of Seizing and Grappling. Instructor's Manual for Police Academy of Zhejiang Province (Shanghai, 1936)

> There are other cities, such as Shanghai or Tokyo, where it is not the case

If you want to talk about militarized police, then look no further than the People's Republic of China. Not that anybody who has ever heard of democracy would want to live under their authoritarianism.

And my family actually risked their lives to escape communist rule, so I'm ESPECIALLY not interested.

And....Pre-communist Shanghai was about as hard-core as pre-communist Hong Kong.

Shanghai was ruled by Triads, meanwhile the police were so embattled that they actually traveled to the shaolin temple to come up with their own style of kung-fung fu (Known as Shaolin Chin Na Fa).

Here's the Shanghai Police Academy's 1936 kung fu manual, in case you thought I was kidding.

> People complain that it's full of people from the former colonies Very few complain about the Congolese.

That must be a recent phenomenon. Today, the Mantoge is getting chic. Much like Brooklyn back in the states.

But I've been in BXL since the early 2000s. I wish somebody could pay me a euro for every time I've heard somebody complaining about that part of town.