Im just quoting your post here @Joe Mac as you specifically talk about police here in the UK.
I honestly have mixed feelings here. Mine and my girlfriend's close friend is a Police Detective here in the UK. We have both known her for a good chunk of our lives (my girlfriend grew up with her at school etc) and she is the nicest person there possible could be. She works in quite a specialist area (which I won't state for obvious reasons) and sympathy and compassion is literally the backbone of her job, she just couldn't do it without it. A relative of hers has the hardest job I can imagine, which is a Police Detective specialising in child abductions (you can imagine the horrors they have seen). When I see people here saying fuck the WHOLE police, they are all horrible (or words to that effect) it really hits me as there will be Police officers out there that are the nicest and most honourable people. If the 2 officers I mentioned didn't exist, the quality of life for hundreds of people they have directly helped would be awful, with more deaths and violence happening to them as a result.
At the same time the stuff that is going on in America is obviously awful, and I will admit to not being clued up on the American policing system, but I can only assume the scenario is the same over there, that there are 'good' police amongst the bad. Now obviously if that 'good' police sees injustice or crime committed by a 'bad' police offer but doesn't report it, then they are complicit as well.
I get that @Selaws and while I also know individual police officers that I like and that are good people (both my neighbours growing up, my Dad’s wife’s eldest son) the police force is a horrible thing that has had a largely negative impact on society over the last 30/40 years, it’s quite simply not fit for purpose. FYI I was born in the 80s in a coal mining town, I don’t think the rift between the police force and the population at large will ever heal over them acting as a militia and fighting a de facto war against striking workers.
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