It is unfortunate
that they get such a bad press.

The tabloids tend, rather than focus on the Police and what they do, (just remember that every time some little retard whose amassed a 3-figure list of convictions before they're 15/tosspot whose been making his neighbourhoods life a misery/serious twats like Huntley/Brady and the like/everyone else in between gets locked up, they were largely responsible for getting them off the street) tend to focus on when things go wrong. It's not just the Police but they do love ripping people or organisations to shreds.

These days they have a crap job involving more paperwork, bureaucracy and clever lawyers who are keener to exploit "human rights abuses" for their clients than see justice done. I'm not giving them carte blanche to do as they will but attitudes towards them seem to be influenced more by the British Press' eagerness to knock everything, try to stir up indignation and force us to concentrate on the negative.

There will be eejits in the Police force, just like every other profession. Beverley Allit was a nurse, Ian Huntley was a school caretaker, Dennis Nillsen was a civil servant, Steven Wright drove a fork lift truck, Ted Bundy worked for Nelson Rockefeller, John Wayne Gacy ran a construction company, Hawley Harvey Crippen was a doctor etc but you wouldn't judge their professions based on their actions.

Seems a shame that the Rozzers get it in the neck so much due to peoples perceptions of individuals.
(tinypod will never learn. Ever., Sun 4 Apr 2010, 11:47, 1 reply)

When the law enforcers
choose when and where they will break the same laws they expect you to abide by, it is not just the perception of individuals.
If one was bitten by a dog, it would be quite reasonable to expect that they would be wary of the next dog they encountered.
(M61A1 CUPID- STUNTS, Sun 4 Apr 2010, 13:26, closed)

True
but I still think the general attitude is more down to the people who don't like the police being prepared to kick up more of a stink a lot louder and in more vociferous terms, justified or otherwise, than everybody else. It does seem to be the Old Bill who polarize reactions more than other groups in authority. I've lived in a rough area in my past and the main beef people had with anybody in authority was that they couldn't do what they wanted. This was pretty much endemic across all age groups, but when you hear groups of kids discussing in public how they were going to break into a house specifically to steal car keys in order to "hit a panda and kill the fukkin' cunts in it" (the words of one young tit who I knew to be 13 years old) then it really isn't too hard if I were to pick a side as to which one I'd choose.

I increasingly find myself, as I look around, feeling more and more that the general public are arseholes, every one of them. The more people there are stopping them being this, the better.
(tinypod will never learn. Ever., Sun 4 Apr 2010, 14:00, closed)