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, Reply)