Why do you think people don’t like the Police?

They're always up to something.

7am on a Sunday morning:
"A vehicle much like yours was seen bilking in Manchester yesterday, where was your car at the time?"
"Here, it's SORN'd, look, there's no head on it. Just tell me your here to check the SORN and call at a decent hour next time!"


Years later:
"So what are you driving these days?"
"A car."
 
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Von Smallhausen said:
Wouldn't the provos he supposedly had is back pocket happily put a bullet in him is he sine joined the PSNI ?
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That's why he was a tool and my brother emptied him. All mouth. But that's the kind of a******e I know that's getting into the police. The catholic in the family in the police joined in the late 80s / early 90s when the provos where still handing out fliers that catholics in the RUC would be shot. Or anyone so much as seen talking with them would be "punished". My dad was also old RUC as well, but he took the severance package and retired a few years before the restructuring to the PSNI began. I know a couple prison officers that took packages as well and got straight on the boat to England.
 
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Von Smallhausen said:
By emptied, I take it you don't mean sorted out bu a structured debate ? ;)
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Absolutely not. :) All my dealings with the police have been for similar and a few driving offences. TBH, at the time, they were all *****, but now I'm older and wiser I look back and realise how much of an idiot I was and how lucky I was to not end up having my mum locking me up in prison. It came close. And the getting away when my mum left the service got me away from the people I was knocking about with. I was circling the drain at the time but getting away helped me get my act together and straighten up.

I still have a healthy mistrust and dislike of the police. But it's due to my own history. Now though I try and take them on an individual basis. But there's nothing will wind me up quicker than a swaggering, thumbs in the BPV, cocky cop.
 
KNiVES said:
Little petty things like pulling you over and being asked why you're driving an MX5 at age 19 and then not letting you drive off for a good 45 minutes.
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this, I have a mate who's stopped daily for this reason


The_Sophisticate said:
then having the young officer remark "now if you were ****ed I could understand why you did that", I would probably have a little more respect for our police service.
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thought that was quite funny actually :D
 
@Von = Getting tougher for them. The Carroll murder. The Sapper murders. Increase in the frequency of dissident bombings. I mean working the night shift and getting a call out and wondering if you're walking into an ambush every time must be draining. That part of the job I can fully respect them for because I couldn't do it. The stress would kill me.

Hah. Thinking about that reminded me again of being a kid and checking for explosives under my dads car. That was the routine before getting in the car for a lift to school. Catholic officer lost a leg a while back with one of those and a couple have either failed to detonate or have detonated but not fully, or been on the wrong side of the car. Lucky there hasn't been more deaths.
 
Burnsy2023 said:
Because they've either exceptional experiences or they don't like the work the police do.
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this..usually down to an experience with them

myself I have no strong opinions..they are doing a necessary job and I have only had 1 contact with them in my 40 years...a speeding offence and the officer was professional and polite..did his job and I took some useful advice on board and it all worked out ok.


I suspect if I was a career criminal my opinion would differ
 
Few positives and negatives, like so many other people. On the negative side of things, a good friend of mine was awoken by banging on his door at 7am and went down to investigate. A young scrote (who had been on a robbing spree) was there and was demanding access through my mates living room as he could not get through the locked alley adjacent to the house.

With his 3 kids sound asleep upstairs he told the scrote to find another way and he would not be coming through his house. Things got nasty, and then turned into a melee on his back doorstep, with the youngster swinging a machete at my friend. Luckily he blocked his arm during the swing, and somehow ended up getting hit by the hilt rather than the blade (still had a nasty bump, but better than the alternative).

After a scuffle the scrote ran off, and returned five mins later with another friend and another scuffle ensued, with my mate getting the better of both luckily (they had tried breaking into his house a second time in a revenge attack). A big group of police turned up and took all the details about the attempted break in and assault, then proceeded to lecture my friend about the indoor novelty fireworks he had for the kids and how they were illegal and luckily would not be charged for it! Nothing happened to the scrote, who was a well known serial offender.
 
rypt said:
Speeding is a victimless crime though, in fact it is only a crime because someone somewhere decided to set an arbitrary number with no scientific backing behind it.

Vandalism is not a victimless crime as it is someone's property that is damaged.
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So it's just speeding that you'd let off in your vision of justice?

For what it's worth I don't believe that speeding is necessarily a terrible thing but then there's driving faster than the speed limit and driving faster than is appropriate for the conditions - they may, of course, be two entirely separate speeds even on the same stretch of road. Driving too fast does increase the risk of serious injury to yourself or those you collide with if you should be unfortunate to be in an accident so it's arguable whether it's victimless if you hit someone* - I'm aware that speed itself is the sole cause in a relatively small percentage of accidents but that doesn't alter what the speed limit is of course and that if breaking it you can expect to be treated more harshly than if you had an accident and were driving safely (+within the speed limit since faster is not automatically equal to dangerous driving).

*of course if you never hit someone and never get caught then does a tree falling in the forest make a noise?
 
The bad attitude of them when stopping people in cars, most peoples only point of contact with plod, so it forms a lasting impression.
 
I think that maybe some people don't like them because It's not what they do..It's the way that they do it...simples really.
 
Virdi said:
Why do you think people don’t like the Police?
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I don't like the police because of my experience with them. The ones I've seen are pretty stupid, and a waste of tax money. I've told my stories on OcUK already so I won't bore you again.

I'm sure there's plenty of excellent officers out there, but I've never seen any sadly.
 
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The only Gripe i have ever had with the police is the way their hands are tied in some cases, for example noise complaints they cannot do much about them other than politely ask the people to turn music down or keep the noise down.

Never had any other problems with them myself though.
 
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