Your Nicked!
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vincegamer
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I understand Andy Kauffman\'s \"foreign guy\" character (a.k.a. Latka) originated when someone tried to mug him. Story goes he went into this fake foreign language and started weeping and the mugger actually gave him some cash and walked away.
Dammekkos2
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The main bit hypocracy I dislike are the young officers who happily indulge in recreational drug use on weekends (maybe smoke some weed at a house party or pop a pill in a club) and then help to imprison like minded individuals during the week. There\'s also the double standards that I hate too, such as when a copper lets a fellow copper off with a speeding charge and the like, or an officer, in the course of their daily life, commits an offence and does not have to face any consequences due to the conspiritorial nature of the 10000 strong institution that we are discussing. I really really despise this aspect of your profession, one rule for us and one rule for you, it\'s just the little things like that.
I saw an episode of Frasier yesterday as I had the day off. His dad (the ex-policeman) refuses to fix a ticket for one of the brothers. Sadly this is a fictional character, and I suspect a fictional situation. Most wouldn\'t bat an eyelid at subverting the system for one of their nearest and dearest I think.
You - Oh, and remember we don\'t make the laws. Quite often we can be guilty of going over the line (everywhere from an inch to a mile) but did it ever occur they may have been responding to a particular complaint, and the legislation may have given them the power to do exactly what they did? (Anyone here a legal practitioner knowledgable in British law? can you assist).
Essentialy this is just passing the blame from yoursleves to someone else, as if you\'re forced to do the work that you do or something.
Quite right. I am tarring you all with the same brush, a bit unfair perhaps, but it happens in all walks of life.
This is, admittedly, probably a load of bull. I just read a book called \" The Guv\'nor\", borrowed from a friend. Not really my type of thing but it was reccomended. The author talks about the respect between villains and law enforcment officials. Not really sure why I said that \'cos I don\'t really believe it, I think I was just trying to explain why people who choose to involve themselves in your profession often don\'t get the respect they think that they deserve from normal people. I stand by my point though that good normal people often fall foul of the law, leading to a dislike of the legal establishment.
I\'m not sure if that\'s spurious or disingenuous, suggesting that I have some sort of psychological flaw because I disagree with your views, probably both.
This argument always amuses me. In order to protect ourselves from a system that purports to have our own interests at heart we should all become amatuer lawyers, spending our time studying case law and such. I\'m sure that would be great, but it takes several years of full time study and many more years in practice to learn the intricacies of the legal system. Is this a serious suggestion or just rhetoric? You have already admitted that you don\'t know the ins and outs of the system you help to enforce.
Mr.S.Marbo
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Generally I think the police (at least in the UK) do a difficult job well overall. I would guess (although I may be wrong here)... they get a bad \"rep\" a lot because:
The press is not really interested in reporting on thousands of times a year that armed police are called out and it all goes to plan with no injuries. http://randomreality.blogware.com/blog/_archives/2006/7/10/2096547.html
We generally only hear in the press about what police do in the rare instance when something goes wrong.
You never hear on the news how prompt action by police saved the life of a stab victim, or the simple acts of kindness they carry out daily. Warning for the squeemish this is slightly gruesome: http://randomreality.blogware.com/blog/_archives/2006/6/19/2040209.html
Finally tons of people love to speed and they think the police \"should be catching murderers\" instead of catching them speeding. Unfortunately like the murderer (but without the intent) speed kills too.
The press is not really interested in reporting on thousands of times a year that armed police are called out and it all goes to plan with no injuries. http://randomreality.blogware.com/blog/_archives/2006/7/10/2096547.html
We generally only hear in the press about what police do in the rare instance when something goes wrong.
You never hear on the news how prompt action by police saved the life of a stab victim, or the simple acts of kindness they carry out daily. Warning for the squeemish this is slightly gruesome: http://randomreality.blogware.com/blog/_archives/2006/6/19/2040209.html
Finally tons of people love to speed and they think the police \"should be catching murderers\" instead of catching them speeding. Unfortunately like the murderer (but without the intent) speed kills too.
paintingploddy
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@ Dammekos, not a spurious or disingenuous offer at all. I\'m not suggesting you have a psychological problem merely that your view is particularly coloured by your own prejudice. I say it is a prejudice because it is based on sweeping generalisations. You don\'t know me but have me pigeonholed based on your own limited preconceptions. Oh, and the suggestion people find out what their rights are is a bad thing? It certainly doesn\'t require any research into case law to educate yourself on a handful of basic rights. Most police won\'t have seen a case law in their lives, they are simply told when one affects the way they carry out their day to day duties.
Dammekkos2
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I was a bit annoyed after reading the subject of this post and thinking about my experiences, I probably spoke too harshly.
I still maintain that the police force need to reform, I think supervike makes a good point, I also think power corrupts. Also, when my sister applied to join the police force (hypocrite, she used to go to Glasotnbury and do weed and mushrooms) she was rejected for, among other things, being too racist (very strange, her boyfriend at the time was Egyptian). I concluded from this that a lot of the successful applicants are liars, I think they need to change the application process to improve matters.
I still maintain that the police force need to reform, I think supervike makes a good point, I also think power corrupts. Also, when my sister applied to join the police force (hypocrite, she used to go to Glasotnbury and do weed and mushrooms) she was rejected for, among other things, being too racist (very strange, her boyfriend at the time was Egyptian). I concluded from this that a lot of the successful applicants are liars, I think they need to change the application process to improve matters.
