Quote Originally Posted by Peter View Post
Guilty people should be scared of the police.

THere is a difference between getting a cuff round the back of the head and being sent on your way and killing 96 people at a football match and lying about it for 25 years. One is old school, the other is a government-level cover up and perversion of the course of justice that ademocratic society should not tolerate, even for a moment.

If only we lived in a democratic society.
They are part and parcel of the same thing. Coppers close ranks and protect themselves and traditionally society has allowed them to do so because it used to be nuanced enough to appreciate that theirs is a job that necessarily involves some flexibility with regard to their tacit permission to act outside the law.

Now we have a squeaky clean police force that is irreproachable in its attitudes to multiculturalism, sexuality, gender, etc, etc, but which happens to be fvcking useless at doing its job.