Police drugs raid in Stafford this morning

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Enjoying a drop of red.
henryscat said:
Institutional racism, fitting people up / getting the wrong person, deaths in custody, deaths caused during pursuit, battering innocent people (e.g. Ian Tomlinson), ignoring crime, inciting riots, victimising certain groups.... That's probably plenty to be going on with.
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With the exception of institutional racism are not the other examples you site more a reflection of the action of individuals rather than a representation of how the police force in general acts? Every organisation has bad apples, it is somewhat unfair to generalise and assume that all police would act in this way.

As regards institutional racism this accusation was levelled at the Met was it not and not at all forces across the country? Regardless, one would hope that things have moved on since the early 90s and that the same could not be said today. Seems unfair to tar everyone with the same brush in the manner you appear to be doing.
 
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John said:
With the exception of institutional racism are not the other examples you site more a reflection of the action of individuals rather than a representation of how the police force in general acts? Every organisation has bad apples, it is somewhat unfair to generalise and assume that all police would act in this way.
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:angry: "Yeah. Look, next Tuesday, I'm gonna blow up a Panda in Croydon."

:v: "Yer, right on! Bloody zoos - who needs them?"

:angry: "No, a police car, you terminal wally!"

:v: "Oh, the - the pigs?"

:angry: "Bastards..."

:v: "Yeah.. Especially the few bad apples that spoil their otherwise spotless image."

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grumpystaffordguy

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I'm not going to pick up on every point henryscat has made on this thread as most of it is so far off the mark. Some of what was mentioned could have had a ring of truth 40 years ago perhaps! Things are different these days and we are living in a country where political correctness has gone mad. This in turn means that the Police are having to hit targets and do paperwork for all sorts of nonsense rather than being out on the streets catching criminals. Finally a Police officer is only human and hence mistakes or bad judgement calls can be made. They are the things that get written about in the national press as they make better headlines.
 
tek-monkey

tek-monkey

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I once got stopped by a cop that said he just needed a stop to balance his paperwork, didn't search me just asked who I was and where I was going and asked me to sign the form. Pointless, but they had to meet targets.

On the way home tonight 2 cars passed me that stank of weed, that's a mile and a bit cycle and I smell at least one a week we'll enough to pick out the vehicle. You think the police can't? They show discretion usually, they ignore a lot. You have to really take the mickey to get busted unless the cop in question is really keen. Most of them would prefer you were home stoned on a weekend rather than drunk and causing hassle in town. I worked in nightclubs long enough to know alcohol can be a nasty drug.

But it's legal, so my conscious is clear :-D
 
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