>>The police are now fairly useless IMO, or at least perception, as in ineffective for the the everyday function that people associate them with, keeping bad elements in order and preventing/pursuing petty crime.
We want our police to be politically correct angels who never make mistakes, who behave perfectly and never fail to cope with the obnoxious pile of crap which is society.
We expect them to rigidly adhere to the rules in every situation even though the rules don't fit every situation. We expect them to tolerate abuse and to adhere to a set of rules that everybody else uses against them.
We insist our police cope with people whose only goal is to create an incident that the hyenas from the media can photograph and plaster on the front page.
It is our assumption that anybody complaining against unfair treatment from the police is correct.
And we expect them to do it all at the beck and call of ridiculous civil servants and self interested politicians who care only how it all looks for their career on paper.
We expect them to deal with the lack of respect, even the lack of pride they feel in their own profession, we have no respect for the ordinary copper and insist that they cope with it day in and day out.
And then we expect them to do it to a budget.
What could possibly go wrong?
We're lucky that we still have something left.
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