The Police
Can't help it. Whenever I (have the misfortune to) meet one i always think 'No good will come of this'.

If I'm at a party or in the pub and someone introduces somebody who turns out to be a pig (see!), I immediately treat them with suspicion.

Might have something to do with having the shit kicked out of me by the SPG just off the Kings Road way back.
(pastcaring trembling in a corner....., Sat 3 Apr 2010, 19:32, 12 replies)

Same here.
I know that only the negative stories reach the presses and that the majority are supposedly affable and well-behaved, but I distrust the police entirely. As an organisation, they've proven that they can't be trusted to defend people who actually need defending, and they're happier to Tase or shoot and ask questions later. Plus, the whole culture of fear in the UK is (to a large extent) propped up by police and their supporting organisations.
(blueberrypossum wants to Jaffa your Cake, Sat 3 Apr 2010, 20:16, closed)

I disagree
In fact, I am slightly prejudiced against people who dislike the police (as a whole).

Although you may have had a bad experience, so have the people who:
Got mugged.
Had their house burgled.
Have been in a car crash.
Have been assaulted.
Have been raped/kidnapped/murdered.

Etc etc etc etc for every conceivable crime.

Of course there are some bad police officers, but on the whole they do a difficult job.

Whenever I hear the phrase 'Fuck tha police' or similar, I just think: "Will you be saying that when you dial 999 after your house has been burgled? - Don't think so..."
(theremin put the lotion in the basket on, Sat 3 Apr 2010, 23:04, closed)

reply to theremin
I agree. I usually defend the police when people are just slagging them off just because they want an easy target to unload their frustrations/daddy issues on. only because otherwise i'm going to feel like a cunt when i call them because someones is threatening to,or has done, some harm to me.
(kenzillion, Sun 4 Apr 2010, 1:21, closed)

You got the shit kicked out of you ...
by Vivian's hamster?
(Que?, Sun 4 Apr 2010, 0:22, closed)

not fair i wanted to write this...

(norfolkngood, Sun 4 Apr 2010, 14:57, closed)

Police = untrustworthy
Peope I know have always said that it's only a few "bad apples", why would a police officer lie?.
Seems like there's more bad apples than good to me. They lie because in a position of "authority", they get really shitty if you question their judgement, and must always be seen to be right.
They are always there to write a ticket or stop you from going about your way, but never have I had a helpful response when a crime has been committed against me.
(M61A1 CUPID- STUNTS, Sun 4 Apr 2010, 2:32, closed)

I wouldn't trust a police officer
who takes longer than 7 seconds to identify a carton of juice as not being a weapon.
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Sun 4 Apr 2010, 2:43, closed)

It is unfortunate
that they get such a bad press.

The tabloids tend, rather than focus on the Police and what they do, (just remember that every time some little retard whose amassed a 3-figure list of convictions before they're 15/tosspot whose been making his neighbourhoods life a misery/serious twats like Huntley/Brady and the like/everyone else in between gets locked up, they were largely responsible for getting them off the street) tend to focus on when things go wrong. It's not just the Police but they do love ripping people or organisations to shreds.

These days they have a crap job involving more paperwork, bureaucracy and clever lawyers who are keener to exploit "human rights abuses" for their clients than see justice done. I'm not giving them carte blanche to do as they will but attitudes towards them seem to be influenced more by the British Press' eagerness to knock everything, try to stir up indignation and force us to concentrate on the negative.

There will be eejits in the Police force, just like every other profession. Beverley Allit was a nurse, Ian Huntley was a school caretaker, Dennis Nillsen was a civil servant, Steven Wright drove a fork lift truck, Ted Bundy worked for Nelson Rockefeller, John Wayne Gacy ran a construction company, Hawley Harvey Crippen was a doctor etc but you wouldn't judge their professions based on their actions.

Seems a shame that the Rozzers get it in the neck so much due to peoples perceptions of individuals.
(tinypod will never learn. Ever., Sun 4 Apr 2010, 11:47, closed)

When the law enforcers
choose when and where they will break the same laws they expect you to abide by, it is not just the perception of individuals.
If one was bitten by a dog, it would be quite reasonable to expect that they would be wary of the next dog they encountered.
(M61A1 CUPID- STUNTS, Sun 4 Apr 2010, 13:26, closed)

True
but I still think the general attitude is more down to the people who don't like the police being prepared to kick up more of a stink a lot louder and in more vociferous terms, justified or otherwise, than everybody else. It does seem to be the Old Bill who polarize reactions more than other groups in authority. I've lived in a rough area in my past and the main beef people had with anybody in authority was that they couldn't do what they wanted. This was pretty much endemic across all age groups, but when you hear groups of kids discussing in public how they were going to break into a house specifically to steal car keys in order to "hit a panda and kill the fukkin' cunts in it" (the words of one young tit who I knew to be 13 years old) then it really isn't too hard if I were to pick a side as to which one I'd choose.

I increasingly find myself, as I look around, feeling more and more that the general public are arseholes, every one of them. The more people there are stopping them being this, the better.
(tinypod will never learn. Ever., Sun 4 Apr 2010, 14:00, closed)

I don't trust the Police either.
Gordon Sumner is a pretentious twat of Bono caliber. Sting? What the hell kind of name is that?
( Wanderer, Sun 4 Apr 2010, 16:21, closed)

I'm very grateful.
To live in NZ.

Well, sometimes. We really do elect the most hateful fucks.
(Scritty Bakerman., Sun 4 Apr 2010, 21:51, closed)