In the UK if you are anti-police or even just critical then you are cast as a convicted felon with a grudge to bear.
I was prosecuted for going through a red light, TS10, about thirty six years ago so obviously they are correct.
As an ex fire officer I quite regularly came into contact with the police whilst at work.
There MUST have been a decent and honest officer but I really can't remember one.
I have seen them lie, steal, be corrupt and be generally dishonest. I'll ignore bone-idleness as it seemd to be a pre requisite of the job.
If I visited the police station in my fire service uniform I was treated with relative decency. In civvies I was treated with absolute contempt, as were the other visitors.
I once attended a serious road traffic accident in a rough area of Manchester during the early hours of the morning. The female driver had gone to hospital in an ambulance.
As officer in charge of the fire service attendance one of my men handed me the lady's handbag from the wreck of the car. I, in turn, handed it to the bobby in charge. He obviously didn't want it although I pressed him.
Eventually I forced him to take it arguing that one of his officers would be going to the hospital to interview the woman.
He reluctantly took it. As we drove away I looked into my mirror to see him toss it back into the wrecked car.
What an absolute W@NKER, typical of the dregs the police seem to employ.
