I don't know about you.
But if I saw an assault taking place I hope I would have the decency to attempt to prevent it. The only reason I would have cause to worry about being charged myself would be if the police were corrupt or incompetent. A colleague was almost charged with assault for doing this and I admire him greatly for it.
As to there being no point to police if they argue amongst themselves -- the police are paid and sworn to uphold the law so they should arest any violent scum they see beating anyone and stand upp in court to condemn them.
Perhaps then we'd have more police taking their job seriously.
Edit: If I get a bit pissed off or scared by an intruder in my home and do something "not appropriate" I could be jailed -- the police could get off or loose their job. How's that for double standards?
(Me, I'm not... in any way intoxicated, Fri 6 May 2011, 18:29, 1 reply)

I don't know about you, but
If some of my colleagues that I'm relatively close to had been taking abuse screamed at them all day from a bunch of fucking students, or pretentious tits calling themselves "anarchists" (that's right - smash the system, just make sure you don't burn down the fucking dole office you wankers) then I don't think I'd blame them if they decided to have a bit of a pop.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Sun 8 May 2011, 10:25, closed)