We used to trust the Police in the UK.

29.01.06, 20:19
Can they be trusted now? I know that it's a high-profile case, and that the
original event happened in the aftermath of the London bombings, but can there
be any excuse?

I am seriously concerned that giving the Police any further powers, as are
often being talked about, will only exacerbate the problem. Big Brother policing?

uk.news.yahoo.com/29012006/323/london-police-faked-evidence-shot-brazilian-report.html
    • ianek70 Did we? 31.01.06, 16:27
      The average Polish cop wouldn't survive a week in Strathclyde Police K
      Division, where there is more drunkenness, drugs and violence than PC Kowalski
      could ever dream about, and where a polis is trained to deal with people and
      then allowed to use his initiative.
      If you're caught peeing in the street in Poland, you pay a 20zl "fine", no
      receipt, no problem. Always.
      Someone who looked like me got caught once peeing against a wall in Paisley,
      and was told not to do it again because it's not very nice. This annoyed a
      friend who was with us, sorry them, who had peed against a wall the week before
      and got spotted by a vanload of very bored cops (it was a Tuesday, I think) who
      battered him senseless with their big wooden manhoods. He then failed to co-
      operate with the arrest procedure, by asking "How the fuck can I put my willy
      away if my hands are cuffed behind my back?", so he was beaten again, then had
      to pay a 50 pound fine.
      There's a district whose economy consisted exclusively of a bookmakers, a shop
      selling alcohol, cigarette papers and chocolate, and above all drugs. Most of
      the open dealing was done on the main crossroads, so four video surveillance
      cameras were mounted on lampposts there. Nobody was ever arrested. And then
      when they decided to build a real police station (before there was a barbed-
      wire and concrete bunker like they used to have in Northern Ireland), the
      contract was awarded to a building firm set up specially by some local
      gangsters whose previous business experience was, well, quite varied, but not
      connected with building...
      I don't think the British police are much different from anywhere else.
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