This comment section is going to get interesting, get the popcorn ppl.
> Assaults on officers are increasing, according to a policing union. It wants to see offenders who attack police given jail sentences.
Surely everyone agrees that anyone who commits assault should be given jail sentences? Whether commited on a police officer or not.
I don’t know what it’s like everywhere else. But having lived in Peterborough most of my life, there has always been a low to non existent respect for police. They weren’t (can only cite my experience when I lived there) all that visible when you went about your daily life. I grew up in relatively impoverished areas and people never called the police for things like burglaries or fights. The attitude was always ‘why bother’ which struck me as odd as a child. I think over time, low trust and respect has turned into disdain. Attitudes towards the police often seemed to be a case of viewing them as ‘getting involved in my business’.
I don’t know what it’s like there now as moved away a few years ago, but nonetheless, nobody deserves to be attacked whilst working.
Respect for the police is falling. I wrote on here a few months ago about witnessing a crowd of normal, upstanding members of the public turn on a bunch of officers who were trying to arrest someone who was being a twat. They were getting in the coppers faces and when an officer pushed a young woman back, the crowd retaliated and pushed the officer to the ground.
This wasn’t a crowd of ‘youths’, it was well to do, middle class people in a posh city. The four officers there were so close to loosing control of the situation – when two more arrived, one of them behaving like a coke addict spoiling for a fight, it just intensified the crowd against them.
The automatic response of many members of the public is to assume the officers are up to no good – and with some of the cases in the press at the moment it’s no wonder. the police have lost the respect of huge chunks of the public so there is no shame for people assaulting officers now; in fact in many circles they’ll be seen as in the right.
Who knows how you fix it, but it needs doing and fast, otherwise we’re going to see the police have zero authority over situations.
No wonder, what with all the US-imported anti-police rhetoric.
Great now do something more about attacks by police
Maybe if they stopped showing themselves to be pathetic useless sacks of shit, people would actually respect them
> “They just don’t care for the police any more. I think they look on us as the common enemy and they just attack us a lot of the time.”
Yes, that’s what happens when you spend decades trashing your reputation, being caught in lies and abuses (and lies *about* abuses).
Trust in the police is the lowest it’s been since records began, and that’s overwhelmingly attributable to how the police have handled themselves over the same period.
Peelian principles seem to have been abandoned entirely.
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This comment section is going to get interesting, get the popcorn ppl.
> Assaults on officers are increasing, according to a policing union. It wants to see offenders who attack police given jail sentences.
Surely everyone agrees that anyone who commits assault should be given jail sentences? Whether commited on a police officer or not.
I don’t know what it’s like everywhere else. But having lived in Peterborough most of my life, there has always been a low to non existent respect for police. They weren’t (can only cite my experience when I lived there) all that visible when you went about your daily life. I grew up in relatively impoverished areas and people never called the police for things like burglaries or fights. The attitude was always ‘why bother’ which struck me as odd as a child. I think over time, low trust and respect has turned into disdain. Attitudes towards the police often seemed to be a case of viewing them as ‘getting involved in my business’.
I don’t know what it’s like there now as moved away a few years ago, but nonetheless, nobody deserves to be attacked whilst working.
Respect for the police is falling. I wrote on here a few months ago about witnessing a crowd of normal, upstanding members of the public turn on a bunch of officers who were trying to arrest someone who was being a twat. They were getting in the coppers faces and when an officer pushed a young woman back, the crowd retaliated and pushed the officer to the ground.
This wasn’t a crowd of ‘youths’, it was well to do, middle class people in a posh city. The four officers there were so close to loosing control of the situation – when two more arrived, one of them behaving like a coke addict spoiling for a fight, it just intensified the crowd against them.
The automatic response of many members of the public is to assume the officers are up to no good – and with some of the cases in the press at the moment it’s no wonder. the police have lost the respect of huge chunks of the public so there is no shame for people assaulting officers now; in fact in many circles they’ll be seen as in the right.
Who knows how you fix it, but it needs doing and fast, otherwise we’re going to see the police have zero authority over situations.
No wonder, what with all the US-imported anti-police rhetoric.
Great now do something more about attacks by police
Maybe if they stopped showing themselves to be pathetic useless sacks of shit, people would actually respect them
> “They just don’t care for the police any more. I think they look on us as the common enemy and they just attack us a lot of the time.”
Yes, that’s what happens when you spend decades trashing your reputation, being caught in lies and abuses (and lies *about* abuses).
Trust in the police is the lowest it’s been since records began, and that’s overwhelmingly attributable to how the police have handled themselves over the same period.
Peelian principles seem to have been abandoned entirely.