Drunken off-duty Cop Brutally Assualts Female Bartender

**Big King Sanctaphrax** · 03-22-2007, 21:41

Well, there was a time when if this happened in Britain the Police would go ape on the guy for disrespeting his uniform.

These days?

I don't know. Probably not quite that corrupt though.

Yeah, the police force is more corrupt and violent now than it used to be. Jack Regan, where art thou?

**KrooK** · 03-22-2007, 21:57

American Street Warrior :)

But have you seen that movie. There were at least 4 men and they did nothing. In 4 they could easy stop that guy.

**JimBob** · 03-22-2007, 22:05

Welcome to my city. Best in the world, except for our cops all believing that 'Thin Blue Line' crap

Sometimes I want to become a cop just so I can work IA.

**Husar** · 03-22-2007, 22:49

Disgusting.
He and whoever tried to cover that up should not be allowed to serve as policemen ever again.

**Philippus Flavius Homovallumus** · 03-23-2007, 00:36

Originally Posted by Big King Sanctaphrax

Yeah, the police force is more corrupt and violent now than it used to be. Jack Regan, where art thou?

More morally corrupt, less operationally corrupt, perhaps?

When people got fitted up do you think the coppers were trying to fill a quota or do you think they actually thought the poor sods did it?

Not that institutional corruption is a good thing, but I'd rather have a Policeman who bent the rules in order to catch villains than a Policeman who followed the rules and didn't give a flying hadock.

**Big King Sanctaphrax** · 03-23-2007, 00:45

When people got fitted up do you think the coppers were trying to fill a quota or do you think they actually thought the poor sods did it?

Oh, they thought they did it! Well, that's all right then! Vigilantism and brutality versus increased bureacracy-it's no contest.

I fail to see how being willing to frame people, intimidate witnesses, plant evidence and all the rest of the stuff that went on back then is evidence of moral fibre. In any case, we were talking about a case of police brutality-which would be absolutely guaranteed to be dealt with far more seriously now in the UK.

**Major Robert Dump** · 03-23-2007, 02:30

Cops don't make mistakes, they are always right, she deserved it, she had an accent. All cops are perfect. Somebody get that guy a bottle and a promotion.

**English assassin** · 03-23-2007, 11:39

Well, there was a time when if this happened in Britain the Police would go ape on the guy for disrespeting his uniform.

Someone needs to watch Life on Mars...

It wasn't all Dixon of Dock Green in the good old days you know.

**Philippus Flavius Homovallumus** · 03-23-2007, 20:09

Originally Posted by Big King Sanctaphrax

Oh, they thought they did it! Well, that's all right then! Vigilantism and brutality versus increased bureacracy-it's no contest.

I fail to see how being willing to frame people, intimidate witnesses, plant evidence and all the rest of the stuff that went on back then is evidence of moral fibre. In any case, we were talking about a case of police brutality-which would be absolutely guaranteed to be dealt with far more seriously now in the UK.

No it's not all right, and you know I never said it was. Today's Police are broken backed, don't care and are obsessed with targets, however.

What I'm saying is that before all that broke cover by and large the Police probably cared, since they didn't have to fill targets if they fitted someone up they probably thought they did it. Now they fin ingenous, legal, ways to prosecute old women just to fill targets.

So what I'm saying is that, given the fact that crime is rising and our prisons are stuffed full while actual detection rates are, if anything, falling I can see the virtues of operational vs moral corruption.

EA: You don't think DCI Gene Hunt would beat a Policeman like the one in the article half to death with his fists?