Not looking for an opinion, just clear facts. What have they been charged for? Is it because it could have caught Sarah’s Killer, or is it because they are policemen?
Good. It’s nice to see justice being served properly and efficiently. Unless sentencing is laughably lenient, then I’ll take back what I just said.
You join the police, you should rightly held to a higher standard than the average Joe and Jane. Especially when your words and actions run completely contrary to that trust and responsibility that has been given to you.
*People in the UK: “People who hold signs at the Queens funeral shouldnt be arrested, thats stupid”*
*Also people in the UK: “Fuck this guy who sent a private message to his friend”*
Someones gonna have to explain the consistency of this to me….
The amount of corruption in the police is unbelievable, just remember what the public sees is only the tip of the iceberg.
You lot pretending you don’t know the difference between joking with a mate and being a police officer who talks about raping women you’ve arrested and colleagues with someone who then goes on to actually rape and murder someone (who in some ways you’ve encouraged because you’ve made it ok through conversation intentional or no) are being deliberately obtuse
So the crime they were charged with is covered by S127 of communications act…. So yeah, there’s the precedent set
If I have to see one more man on this thread downplaying this entire thing, I’m going to go fucking mad.
I don’t know why I’m surprised though to be honest. The cognitive dissonance and absolute ignorance men have shown themselves to have in regards to womens’ issues is ever prevalent.
Fucking exhausting being a woman begging men to take this kind of thing seriously. But they don’t give a shit.
(Just to clarify, yes not all men)
Genuine question here as it doesn’t say in the article, but what is the actual crime they’ve been charged with?
‘Sharing grossly racist, sexist and misogynistic messages’ like we know they done it, we have the messages. But what law was broken?
I don’t think you should be able to be prosecuted for private conversations or gross and indecent messaging unless it’s directly targeted or constitutes a real threat towards someone.
This should be a sacking, not a criminal offence.
I wonder how many people on this post have posted stuff that would be considered offensive. Jokes about death, disease, crime etc
Well at least they’re health conscious enough to wear masks.
IMO there’s an important difference between finding them completely unfit for their employment given their attitudes, and guilty of a **criminal** offence.
Where ‘chat’ is between consenting people and not direct harassment of a recipient or in public, I don’t think the law has any place interfering.
The contents of the chat 100% suggest that these people should not be police officers, and I’m all for it being used to root them out of the police force, but that is different to saying it is a criminal offence which can be applied to anyone having ‘offensive’ chats.
If they had been charged with “conduct unbecoming a police officer”, or a similar crime then that would be a different matter – but the statute they were charged under is not one that should exist.
Am I reading this correctly? They exchanged some ‘offensive’ messages in a private WhatsApp chat, and that’s something they have been prosecuted for? Seriously?
They should never have been police officers but this is morally wrong.
You should not in a free society be prosecuted for vile jokes. In fact freedom of speech requires we protect this kind of speech.
I always find it sad how willing people are in the UK to decide what others can and cannot say. rape jokes should not be illegal.
This is weird. It’s a private communication. If I exchanged mail correspondence with a friend in which we said distasteful things to each other, could we be prosecuted?
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Not looking for an opinion, just clear facts. What have they been charged for? Is it because it could have caught Sarah’s Killer, or is it because they are policemen?
Good. It’s nice to see justice being served properly and efficiently. Unless sentencing is laughably lenient, then I’ll take back what I just said.
You join the police, you should rightly held to a higher standard than the average Joe and Jane. Especially when your words and actions run completely contrary to that trust and responsibility that has been given to you.
*People in the UK: “People who hold signs at the Queens funeral shouldnt be arrested, thats stupid”*
*Also people in the UK: “Fuck this guy who sent a private message to his friend”*
Someones gonna have to explain the consistency of this to me….
The amount of corruption in the police is unbelievable, just remember what the public sees is only the tip of the iceberg.
You lot pretending you don’t know the difference between joking with a mate and being a police officer who talks about raping women you’ve arrested and colleagues with someone who then goes on to actually rape and murder someone (who in some ways you’ve encouraged because you’ve made it ok through conversation intentional or no) are being deliberately obtuse
So the crime they were charged with is covered by S127 of communications act…. So yeah, there’s the precedent set
If I have to see one more man on this thread downplaying this entire thing, I’m going to go fucking mad.
I don’t know why I’m surprised though to be honest. The cognitive dissonance and absolute ignorance men have shown themselves to have in regards to womens’ issues is ever prevalent.
Fucking exhausting being a woman begging men to take this kind of thing seriously. But they don’t give a shit.
(Just to clarify, yes not all men)
Genuine question here as it doesn’t say in the article, but what is the actual crime they’ve been charged with?
‘Sharing grossly racist, sexist and misogynistic messages’ like we know they done it, we have the messages. But what law was broken?
I don’t think you should be able to be prosecuted for private conversations or gross and indecent messaging unless it’s directly targeted or constitutes a real threat towards someone.
This should be a sacking, not a criminal offence.
I wonder how many people on this post have posted stuff that would be considered offensive. Jokes about death, disease, crime etc
Well at least they’re health conscious enough to wear masks.
IMO there’s an important difference between finding them completely unfit for their employment given their attitudes, and guilty of a **criminal** offence.
Where ‘chat’ is between consenting people and not direct harassment of a recipient or in public, I don’t think the law has any place interfering.
The contents of the chat 100% suggest that these people should not be police officers, and I’m all for it being used to root them out of the police force, but that is different to saying it is a criminal offence which can be applied to anyone having ‘offensive’ chats.
If they had been charged with “conduct unbecoming a police officer”, or a similar crime then that would be a different matter – but the statute they were charged under is not one that should exist.
Am I reading this correctly? They exchanged some ‘offensive’ messages in a private WhatsApp chat, and that’s something they have been prosecuted for? Seriously?
They should never have been police officers but this is morally wrong.
You should not in a free society be prosecuted for vile jokes. In fact freedom of speech requires we protect this kind of speech.
I always find it sad how willing people are in the UK to decide what others can and cannot say. rape jokes should not be illegal.
This is weird. It’s a private communication. If I exchanged mail correspondence with a friend in which we said distasteful things to each other, could we be prosecuted?