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PostPosted: 18:19 - 22 Oct 2013    Post subject: Police trust... Reply with quote

The bbc have an article about police trust after 'plebgate' https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-24627319

There's a lovely little pie chart that says people's opinion of the police is unsurprisingly getting worse. What is surprising though is that some people now trust the police more!?! Who the hell are these people?
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PostPosted: 18:42 - 22 Oct 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote

It might be because a lot of people don't really dig that deep when looking at the news and are swayed by statistics* For instance on the face of it, no police officer has ever been prosecuted for killing a civilian.

Kind of like how the Chinese government is whiter than white because the Chinese government has prosecuted 0 top politicians in its 60 year existence.

BCF sometimes digs real deep into issues and we cross swords over them and cite sources. We disagree and even do something really weird and that is to change our minds about things.

A lot of people have a fixed view and even when presented with evidence against their belief (consider religion) will suffer cognitive dissonance for a while then revert back to their old view.





*The not digging deep on statistics for example is when the government lied about the budget deficit going down. Which is fiction. https://blogs.channel4.com/factcheck/cameron-busted-on-debt-claims there were interviews about this lots of people simply too it as truth rather than looking deeper into it and finding out it was a lie.
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PostPosted: 19:24 - 22 Oct 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote

Some folk don't mind them fitting people up, as long as it's people they don't like.
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PostPosted: 20:30 - 22 Oct 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote

I think it may be that compared to others the Police do stand up. I'm not saying that they are squeaky clean, but when you look at others who are supposed to be up right and are not, the Police as a body are ok.
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PostPosted: 20:45 - 22 Oct 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote

as its the media and the MPs that are highlighting these "facts" I choose to ignore them totally as they will be fixed to fit their own agenda.
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PostPosted: 22:01 - 22 Oct 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote

Skudd wrote:
I think it may be that compared to others the Police do stand up. I'm not saying that they are squeaky clean, but when you look at others who are supposed to be up right and are not, the Police as a body are ok.


Sorry, I must disagree.

We (the public) are expected to be squeaky clean, on pain of loss of liberty, loss of transport and, ruination. The police are the first level arbiters of the above, therefore they should be better than those whom they police.
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PostPosted: 22:08 - 22 Oct 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Skudd wrote:
I think it may be that compared to others the Police do stand up. I'm not saying that they are squeaky clean, but when you look at others who are supposed to be up right and are not, the Police as a body are ok.


Sorry, I must disagree.

We (the public) are expected to be squeaky clean, on pain of loss of liberty, loss of transport and, ruination. The police are the first level arbiters of the above, therefore they should be better than those whom they police.


When what we have are a bunch of thugs prepared to wear a uniform for a salary and stab their own in the back for the benefit of the scum who rule and enslave us.
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PostPosted: 22:22 - 22 Oct 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote

Rob Fzs wrote:
probably old granny may that hasn't had her teeth kicked in by some yobo for her pension money yet, or maybe just bbc fabrication.


The oldies are on countless types of legal smack to know any different.
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PostPosted: 10:48 - 23 Oct 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote

I trust them less and less, find them to be more full of their own self importance and 99.8% of the time I am not the 'criminal' they are after. At work a warranted constable wished to speak to myself, some of the staff and have me search through the CCTV for him to assist him in his duties.

Did he

A - walk over and politely introduce himself, ask if I could help him and if he could speak to the staff and please could I search the CCTV for him?

B - march over and bark out a demand to be told my name and address in an aggressive manner then demand I give him the hard drive for the CCTV without even telling me who he is or what his business in being here is?

So while bully boy was stood there fuming I quickly rang the nick and got hold of a Sergeant and asked him very loudly if the force has a PC 4**8 as I had a man before me dressed as a police officer bearing the number 4**8. When he replied that they did have such an officer I then loudly asked him to describe the officer to me as I found it hard to believe that a genuine warranted constable when requesting assistance from ordinary law abiding members of the public would be quite so incongruous in his mannerisms. Given this I had suspected this man before me of impersonating a police officer and thought it prudent to ring the station and report my concerns.

I then loudly told the Sergeant the officer wished to remove yet another CCTV hard drive and that this would be the fifth CCTV hard drive of ours that the force would take and keep for 'evidence' requiring me to fork out for yet another hard drive to replace the numerous ones of ours the force already have and have had for over eighteen months in the worst case. When added to the officers lack of civility I was considering requiring the officer to Foxtrot Oscar and return with a warrant if he wanted the hard drive.

By this time bully boy had gone a violent shade of beetroot and stormed out as I loudly thanked the Sergeant for his time, suggested that the officer before me could do with some additional training and told the Sergeant he had restored my shattered faith in the police a little bit.
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PostPosted: 11:14 - 23 Oct 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote

keggyhander wrote:
Skudd wrote:
I think it may be that compared to others the Police do stand up. I'm not saying that they are squeaky clean, but when you look at others who are supposed to be up right and are not, the Police as a body are ok.


Sorry, I must disagree.

We (the public) are expected to be squeaky clean, on pain of loss of liberty, loss of transport and, ruination. The police are the first level arbiters of the above, therefore they should be better than those whom they police.


I didn't say perfect, but compared to others, both in this country and others, they are ok.
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PostPosted: 11:15 - 23 Oct 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hetzer wrote:


When what we have are a bunch of thugs prepared to wear a uniform for a salary and stab their own in the back for the benefit of the scum who rule and enslave us.


They are just a reflection of the society that they come from.
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PostPosted: 11:17 - 23 Oct 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote

Skudd wrote:
Hetzer wrote:


When what we have are a bunch of thugs prepared to wear a uniform for a salary and stab their own in the back for the benefit of the scum who rule and enslave us.


They are just a reflection of the society that they come from.


Very true. But to make the best of that very bad reality they should at least be 100% accountable. Unfortunately they get away with blatant murder too often, never mind all the other flagrant crimes they commit with impunity.
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PostPosted: 11:18 - 23 Oct 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote

Joncrete Cungle wrote:
I trust them less and less, find them to be more full of their own self importance and 99.8% of the time I am not the 'criminal' they are after. At work a warranted constable wished to speak to myself, some of the staff and have me search through the CCTV for him to assist him in his duties.

Did he

A - walk over and politely introduce himself, ask if I could help him and if he could speak to the staff and please could I search the CCTV for him?

B - march over and bark out a demand to be told my name and address in an aggressive manner then demand I give him the hard drive for the CCTV without even telling me who he is or what his business in being here is?

So while bully boy was stood there fuming I quickly rang the nick and got hold of a Sergeant and asked him very loudly if the force has a PC 4**8 as I had a man before me dressed as a police officer bearing the number 4**8. When he replied that they did have such an officer I then loudly asked him to describe the officer to me as I found it hard to believe that a genuine warranted constable when requesting assistance from ordinary law abiding members of the public would be quite so incongruous in his mannerisms. Given this I had suspected this man before me of impersonating a police officer and thought it prudent to ring the station and report my concerns.

I then loudly told the Sergeant the officer wished to remove yet another CCTV hard drive and that this would be the fifth CCTV hard drive of ours that the force would take and keep for 'evidence' requiring me to fork out for yet another hard drive to replace the numerous ones of ours the force already have and have had for over eighteen months in the worst case. When added to the officers lack of civility I was considering requiring the officer to Foxtrot Oscar and return with a warrant if he wanted the hard drive.

By this time bully boy had gone a violent shade of beetroot and stormed out as I loudly thanked the Sergeant for his time, suggested that the officer before me could do with some additional training and told the Sergeant he had restored my shattered faith in the police a little bit.


And you wonder why. Rolling Eyes
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PostPosted: 11:40 - 23 Oct 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote

keggyhander wrote:
Skudd wrote:
I think it may be that compared to others the Police do stand up. I'm not saying that they are squeaky clean, but when you look at others who are supposed to be up right and are not, the Police as a body are ok.
Sorry, I must disagree.

We (the public) are expected to be squeaky clean, on pain of loss of liberty, loss of transport and, ruination. The police are the first level arbiters of the above, therefore they should be better than those whom they police.

I agree with that sentiment.
I have said before the police should be like Caesar's wife*.
That is, above suspicion.

The police must also accept that because they set themselves above others they must set an example. Too often it's a case of "well if the police can do that/get away with that then it's good enough for me".

Policing is also about consent. That is we (the public) consent to give the police powers to uphold the laws as passed by parliament**. That consent is being eroded.
Gov.uk wrote:
...police historian Charles Reith in his ‘New Study of Police History ‘in 1956, it was a philosophy of policing ‘unique in history and throughout the world because it derived not from fear but almost exclusively from public co-operation with the police, induced by them designedly by behaviour which secures and maintains for them the approval, respect and affection of the public’....
IMHO the approval, respect and affection has diminished somewhat since 1956.

I have been victim of the police (a) making up the 'law' and (b) refusing to actually follow the law as written. This makes me not trust the police.

I have also had the police through hard work bring a criminal whos actions hurt my family to the court and be sentenced (pleaded guilty due to weight of evidence).


Therefore I now like to think the best first*** and wait to be proved wrong. Trust, like respect, needs to be earned.

Shocked


* ref click here.

** Other ref click here.

*** Can be an obvious arse of a copper on a power trip and throwing his authority around (example given above by others).
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PostPosted: 15:25 - 23 Oct 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote

Joncrete Cungle wrote:
I trust them less and less, find them to be more full of their own self importance and 99.8% of the time I am not the 'criminal' they are after. At work a warranted constable wished to speak to myself, some of the staff and have me search through the CCTV for him to assist him in his duties.

Did he

A - walk over and politely introduce himself, ask if I could help him and if he could speak to the staff and please could I search the CCTV for him?

B - march over and bark out a demand to be told my name and address in an aggressive manner then demand I give him the hard drive for the CCTV without even telling me who he is or what his business in being here is?

So while bully boy was stood there fuming I quickly rang the nick and got hold of a Sergeant and asked him very loudly if the force has a PC 4**8 as I had a man before me dressed as a police officer bearing the number 4**8. When he replied that they did have such an officer I then loudly asked him to describe the officer to me as I found it hard to believe that a genuine warranted constable when requesting assistance from ordinary law abiding members of the public would be quite so incongruous in his mannerisms. Given this I had suspected this man before me of impersonating a police officer and thought it prudent to ring the station and report my concerns.

I then loudly told the Sergeant the officer wished to remove yet another CCTV hard drive and that this would be the fifth CCTV hard drive of ours that the force would take and keep for 'evidence' requiring me to fork out for yet another hard drive to replace the numerous ones of ours the force already have and have had for over eighteen months in the worst case. When added to the officers lack of civility I was considering requiring the officer to Foxtrot Oscar and return with a warrant if he wanted the hard drive.

By this time bully boy had gone a violent shade of beetroot and stormed out as I loudly thanked the Sergeant for his time, suggested that the officer before me could do with some additional training and told the Sergeant he had restored my shattered faith in the police a little bit.


so whats the point of having cctv if you don't want to give it to the police when they want it?
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PostPosted: 15:40 - 23 Oct 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote

Keir wrote:


so whats the point of having cctv if you don't want to give it to the police when they want it?


It is one of the licencing conditions. It is not that I don't want to give CCTV to the police, I am perfectly happy when asked civilly to help the police when I can. I will provide them copies of what ever CCTV they want should they approach me properly. I don't want to give the police the hard drive for the CCTV, because they keep it for anything up to 18 months and counting, requests for it to be returned fall upon deaf ears.

Meaning I have to buy another hard drive rinse and repeat four times, so my goodwill is exhausted. They can either have a copy of the relevant footage burned onto their disc / saved to their memory stick or emailed to them from now on. Incidentally while the police have the hard drive and I am waiting for the replacement, again. I have no CCTV and am in breach of said licencing condition.
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PostPosted: 19:17 - 23 Oct 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote

Police trust is a form of stockholm syndrome tbh.


The police have a monopoly on state sanctioned violence against civilians, well the army could be used in martial law...
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PostPosted: 19:30 - 23 Oct 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote

fatpies wrote:
Police trust is a form of stockholm syndrome tbh.




This ^ in spades. That's why so many otherwise intelligent people defend them. Fear and loathing is transformed into a form of 'love' in order to endure and tolerate what would otherwise be eradicated.

The problem is that without them we'd have a far nastier breed of scum running amok.
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PostPosted: 20:11 - 23 Oct 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote

ask yourself the question

if you were beaten up / robbed / offended by anyone would you

A) call the police
B) deal with it yourself

personally unless its a major issue that I have no choice I choose option B
purely out of the fact I don't want the police snooping around my life and the fact there useless most times
I can get better results by using contacts or talking to people

example
a couple of years ago I noticed my shed had been broken into overnight and a mini moto had gone missing
rather than call the police I put the word out that harm would befall the thief's when I caught them
unless said property was returned
4 hrs later said mini moto was left at my gate
even though I know who took it no retribution followed, the point was made
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PostPosted: 21:37 - 23 Oct 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote

I wonder if folks opinions would change if the police in Britain got to play with real guns?
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PostPosted: 22:22 - 23 Oct 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hetzer wrote:
The problem is that without them we'd have a far nastier breed of scum running amok.


I agree, while the police are far from perfect, they do at least attempt to keep scumbags in check to a degree.

It makes me laugh when my hippy, "peace and love maaan" friends are all "down with the government".

In reality what would happen in police/army/govt disappeared overnight? Would it be everyone holding hands and singing round a campfire? Would it fuck. There would be a mad dash to fill the power vacuum, anyone and everyone from local hardmen to big organised crime players would be jumping into to seize what they could....

Without the right sort of solid, self-policing type of people, (and hippies in generally shy away from violence even if necessary in self defence IME) loss of rule of law would be fucking horrific.

This is coming from someone who is generally pretty anti-govt by the way Wink just trying to be realistic here. As sad as it sounds, I doubt the general populace are equipped to handle freedom. Without adequate culture and groundwork put in, freedom would quite literally resemble anarchy.

Lets take relaxing gun laws for example. Somewhere like Alaska has a very long history of everyone going round with guns. To the point where it's really not a big deal to anyone, it's completely normal and no-one makes a fuss and in general people aren't dicks about it. It's become ingrained into the culture so it's just part of life.

If you let people have guns over here, there would be shootings up and down the land as the UK lacks that longstanding culture of treating firearms with respect. Before you know it, every teenager is being a dick and drawing on randoms in the street for looking vaguely in their direction.

Bit of a catch 22..


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