>> Lack of respect for the police is not helped by the judicial system which appears
>> to enjoy prosecuting the victims for retaliation rather than the original miscreants.
I 100% agree with that sentiment...but...the public gets what it deserves.
They've voted in people who over the years have enforced a mentality of stricter and stricter control of the police and introduced the IPCC (Independent Police Complaints Commission) and now PCCs (Police and Crime Commissioners) and had previously demanded most robust complaints systems and then introduced various controls inc targets....so ended up with a police service that is too damned frightened to make any decisions on their own..and constantly cover their backsides rather than make the common sense decisions.
That is why Mr or Mrs Average gets prosecuted in the circumstance you describe, NOT because the individual officer wishes it. Discretion is virtually gone.
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