>> >>You can be obnoxiously rude sometimes.
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>> Yes, I can. Sometimes unwittingly, mostly on purpose. Usually when I am responding to a
>> comment which I find so wrong, and that offends me so much, that I feel
>> it deserves no respect whatsoever.
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Actually, too quick to jump on a deliberately placed trigger IMHO. After all, I have been away for about a month and anticipated the reaction I got - though I had hoped it wouldn't be taken too seriously. After all, if I said your favourite goalie should be shot for letting in an obviously easy goal would you comment in the same way? I would hope not as whilst there is clear annoyance about the performance of the said goalkeeper, no one really expects him to be shot - we are not in Columbia after all.
Do you actually believe that the comments made here are 100% serious and reflect the actual person posting? We are all complex people, living in a complex world with views that are not black and white. So in one breath, I can say the cops stink because of this or some other incident easily found on the interweb and in another, that cops deserve medals because a squad of them ran towards the danger, have to clear up after a murder etc.
I support wholeheartedly increased public sector spending on the NHS and the Police to raise standards. I think stop and search is an overstep of powers, but approve of it because the knife murder rate among young, predominately black kids in London is disastrously high etc.
I also believe there should be better phycological vetting of the police and a more open complaints process that includes more prosecution of wrong doing, because police are not treated the same way as members of the public (take two recent cases of TWOCing by police officers who were disciplined but not prosecuted or the case of a cop caught with a crowbar and other similar equipment late at night but not done for going equipped) and the failure to be open, fair and equal in legal consequence damages the fundamental tradition that the police are the public and that the public are the police.
I support the The Peelian Principles and believe that in some areas the standards are not being met, for example, "The police earn public support by respecting community principles. Winning public approval requires hard work to build reputation: enforcing the laws impartially, hiring officers who represent and understand the community, and using force only as a last resort." has not been met in some communities for some time.
Complex beings are we. Just don't judge us by one line comments made here.
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