The Police

[Swales lives]

It's got f*ck all to do with balls, joining the police is the same as joining a gang.
It doesn't take guts - it takes insecurity.
The Police deserve criticism anyway, unless you count gunning down Brazilian electricians on public transport,
torturing Irish men and murdering rastafarians in custody as acceptable behaviour.

Yes, they deserve criticism when they get it wrong, and there'll always be a few bad apples. However, the vast majority of coppers do the job cos they make a genuine difference to society. It does take balls to do the job as effectively you're putting your life on the line each time you put the uniform on. Out of interest, what do you do for a living? Do you contribute to society or are you in it just for yourself?

I work in advertising, I pay taxes, just an ordinary family man really.
Not a shady criminal type, but every meeting I've had with the police has been negative:
1. Stopped, searched, slapped, kicked - as a teen
2. Treated like sub-human scum at football matches
3. Spoken to like a toddler by traffic police
4. Ignored as a burglary victim
5. Ignored as an assault victim

"Bad apples" my arse. More like a shower of c*nts.

 

[Anonymous]

It's got f*ck all to do with balls, joining the police is the same as joining a gang.
It doesn't take guts - it takes insecurity.
The Police deserve criticism anyway, unless you count gunning down Brazilian electricians on public transport,
torturing Irish men and murdering rastafarians in custody as acceptable behaviour.

Yes, they deserve criticism when they get it wrong, and there'll always be a few bad apples. However, the vast majority of coppers do the job cos they make a genuine difference to society. It does take balls to do the job as effectively you're putting your life on the line each time you put the uniform on. Out of interest, what do you do for a living? Do you contribute to society or are you in it just for yourself?

I work in advertising, I pay taxes, just an ordinary family man really.
Not a shady criminal type, but every meeting I've had with the police has been negative:
1. Stopped, searched, slapped, kicked - as a teen
2. Treated like sub-human scum at football matches
3. Spoken to like a toddler by traffic police
4. Ignored as a burglary victim
5. Ignored as an assault victim

"Bad apples" my arse. More like a shower of c*nts.

Hmmm, coming from someone who works in advertising. Sorry, I shouldn't generalise like that as it's wrong to do so, I'm sure you'd agree. Wouldn't you???

 

[Swales lives]

Hmmm, coming from someone who works in advertising. Sorry, I shouldn't generalise like that as it's wrong to do so, I'm sure you'd agree. Wouldn't you???[/quote]

I'm not generalising. I'm speaking from my own experience, every copper I've had dealings with has been an arse 'ole.

 

[Mr Ed (The Stables)]

No, not the band.

Seriously considering quitting my current job and joining the force, is anyone on here currently working as a copper? If so, good points, bad points etc would be great.

Ta.

The pension!!

 

[Newlunar]

It's got f*ck all to do with balls, joining the police is the same as joining a gang.
It doesn't take guts - it takes insecurity.
The Police deserve criticism anyway, unless you count gunning down Brazilian electricians on public transport,
torturing Irish men and murdering rastafarians in custody as acceptable behaviour.

Yes, they deserve criticism when they get it wrong, and there'll always be a few bad apples. However, the vast majority of coppers do the job cos they make a genuine difference to society. It does take balls to do the job as effectively you're putting your life on the line each time you put the uniform on. Out of interest, what do you do for a living? Do you contribute to society or are you in it just for yourself?

I work in advertising, I pay taxes, just an ordinary family man really.
Not a shady criminal type, but every meeting I've had with the police has been negative:
1. Stopped, searched, slapped, kicked - as a teen
2. Treated like sub-human scum at football matches
3. Spoken to like a toddler by traffic police
4. Ignored as a burglary victim
5. Ignored as an assault victim

"Bad apples" my arse. More like a shower of c*nts.

And yet you still go bleating to them when someone's given you a crack. If I'd been burgled the last thing I would want was to let murdering racist bullies into my house.
You can't have it both ways Mr Swales, when things go awry in your anarchic Utopia you can't really go crying to the hated state to help you out. There's an air of hypocrisy about that.
Good luck with advertising stuff, I don't how the country would get through another day without another shameless capitalist advertising stunt. It's a really important job.

 

[Swales lives]

And yet you still go bleating to them when someone's given you a crack. If I'd been burgled the last thing I would want was to let murdering racist bullies into my house.
You can't have it both ways Mr Swales, when things go awry in your anarchic Utopia you can't really go crying to the hated state to help you out. There's an air of hypocrisy about that.
Good luck with advertising stuff, I don't how the country would get through another day without another shameless capitalist advertising stunt. It's a really important job.[/quote]

1. Being found unconscious in the street after being near kicked to death by a gang is hardly "bleating to the police."
2. You have to tell the dibble if you get burgled, or the Insurance won't pay out.
3. I agree with you about the job, its worthless. But I get to listen to good music and drink coffee all day.

 

[Newlunar]

And yet you still go bleating to them when someone's given you a crack. If I'd been burgled the last thing I would want was to let murdering racist bullies into my house.
You can't have it both ways Mr Swales, when things go awry in your anarchic Utopia you can't really go crying to the hated state to help you out. There's an air of hypocrisy about that.
Good luck with advertising stuff, I don't how the country would get through another day without another shameless capitalist advertising stunt. It's a really important job.

1. Being found unconscious in the street after being near kicked to death by a gang is hardly "bleating to the police."
2. You have to tell the dibble if you get burgled, or the Insurance won't pay out.
3. I agree with you about the job, its worthless. But I get to listen to good music and drink coffee all day.[/quote]

Fair enough. I've had a very similar experience regarding an unprovoked kicking. It's not nice at all. No one was ever caught but I didn't blame the police. No evidence. And I bet if there was sufficient evidence in either of your encounters it would have been acted on.
Anyway, I'll leave it at that I think. I don't anyone thinking I give a Flying F.

 

[TheMightyQuinn]

Dirty fucking pigs who like to abuse young girls in order to feel big about themselves, fuck the police, cunts who do fuck all to help the people who need it.

 

[pinacolada]

My uncle was in the Met and he's a pretty arrogant, cocky, self assured kind of guy who loves the sound of his own voice and forcing his opinions on others. In summary, he's an odious, obnoxious and thoroughly unpleasant chap whose company I avoid as much as possible.

However, I'm sure its these traits that made him a successful police officer. I guess having to deal with lying, cheating, violent, thieving scum on a daily basis means you have to be confident and forceful, and when dealing with criminal lowlife, it does the trick.

But most coppers have this same attitude when dealing with everyone and so decent members of the public often have a bad experience with them. I'm not necessarily having a go at the police, just saying that to be a police officer you probably need the kind of personality most people don't like (or you'll develop one from being in the job)