One February evening last year
I head shouting as I was drifting off to sleep. As I ran to the window I remembered to put my glasses on. I saw a bloke lying in the gutter, a car stopped outside my house and 2 blokes walking towards the bloke in the gutter, I then saw them punch and kick the fella while calling him a kiddy fiddler. Naturally I called the rozzers who turned up really quite quickly (we weren't the only ones to call) To cut a long story short the bloke who was beaten up had never been accused of kiddie fiddling (bloke doing the beating up said to my dad that the bloke had been given community service for being found guilty of child abuse) let alone found guilty. One of the blokes was arrested and I even went all the way through to an ID parade (I couldn't identify him). I currently work for the police and if I didn't I would still be thinking, a year later, that I might still get called up for court - what I do know as a member of police staff is that the accused had an argument with his missus on new years eve and went out and hanged himself.
( Roxy_Hart is so so old, Mon 18 Feb 2008, 20:11, 2 replies)

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isn't it nice to be able to read through the reports and find out what happened? What always gets me is how what the defendant states happened is always completely opposite of what actually happened. Do they think we are that fucking stupid?

Though I tend to either ignore what a defendant says or stop their story with a curt "that has no bearing here" because by the time I see them, they've already pled guilty and I'm just enforcing the Judge's orders......or having them arrested again.
( flirting with badgers What? It sounded good at the time., Tue 19 Feb 2008, 2:41, closed)

I get to do some of the pre-trial but post-arrest bit.

Reckon we can get a b3ta-only legal system going if we all move to the same place?

Is anyone a judge?
( Mockingbird Practitioner of SCIENCE, Tue 19 Feb 2008, 10:12, closed)