Quote Originally Posted by InsaneApache View Post
I'd like to say that I'm suprised but I'm not.



http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/new...cle5998930.ece

When I was a nipper my dad was a copper and I'm sure would never behave like these policemen did. The police are a joke these days. As for those PCSOs I wouldn't pay them in washers, absolute waste of space.

I'll recount a tale of an incident that happened last summer. I was walking the dogs in the park with my wife. We passed some youths, one of which said something to my wife. She is no shrinking violet and began to remonstrate with them. As we started to walk away a brick came hurtling over our heads and landed just in front of us, followed by several others. I got my moblie phone out and rang the police. The youths saw this and ran off. About ten minutes later two bobbies turn up. I told them what had happened and was shocked at what they said.

"Did any of the bricks hit you?" I said that they hadn't. "In that case no crime has been committed." No crime? Chucking half charlies at people heads is legal? It gets better. I said that I was going to photograph them so that the police could catch them. I was told that if I had taken a photograph that they would arrest me on charges of being a peadophile. I was dumbstruck.

That's what twelve years of the Blair/Brown has gotten us. Policemen who don't police anymore. I'm almost tempted to say I'd rather have those US policemen who beat you up first and ask questions later. Almost.
lol, the police in Britain are a result of anti-police sentiment that has made them scared to be real police anymore.
Also, you do not know what you are talking about with American police. They are the farthest thing from "beat you up first and ask questions later". They do their job and make sure people obey the law. Sure you have some isolated cases of corruption or misuse of power, it happens anywhere where people have power, but the good ones do their best to keep it undercontrol and punish the bad ones for it. No matter what you want to say about American policemen, if the Fire Department could not get there in time, they would give their lives if necassary to rescue a burning human. 99% of them are really true protectors of the people, and deserve more respect than they get for it. Considering the number of policemen in America (and the limited funding they get), there is VERY little corruption or abuse of power. Sorry to rant on you Apache, but before you go believing what the media tells you about American police, perhaps you should come live here and see for yourself.