Judging by your intelligent comment I can reasonably assume that you are someone who hopefully ISN'T one of the stereotypical jackass police officers. However, my main problem with them is how many stereotypical ones there are. There's a Norman Rockwell painting of a policeman with a little boy running away from home in an Italian restaurant. What happened to those cops? You know, the ones that people could have a friendly conversation with, not worry about getting arrested for arguing a speeding ticket with charges like "disrupting the peace" or "resisting arrest" etc.Insanum said:I am studying to become a policeman, and let me put this one question to you:
Someone breaks into your house, beats the crap out of you and your family and then runs away. are you going to try and track him down using videos you saw on youtube or with moves you saw in a rambo film, or are you going to call the professionals?<color=white>here's where 200 people tell me the police couldnt find X person. its a damn shame they dont publish "mary was found safe and well" every day in the paper as much as they publish missing people stories.
People need to grow up and quite frankly get real. Everyone knows the typical "Power-mad Policeman" stereotype but quite frankly in the UK the police are so closely scrutinised nowadays that they have to justify their actions, and a majority of the time can do legally.
Put yourself in their shoes. One day you're dealing with an old lady who has had her bag snatched by some low life and the next you're trying to contain a bunch of rowdy students that are angry that they will have to limit their drinking, whilst trying to minimise the amount of vandalism they are causing (but do not get blamed for, because oh no, the police shouldve stopped the rioting[/I].