Hold on.. Weren’t they all supposed to be woke now?
Wasn’t there some sort of scandal in Charing cross police station before. It’s time that police station was disbanded with officers being sent to other police stations. And reconstituted with police officers from other police stations
They aren’t very good a silencing these. Appears they’re kicking out everyone they can find
When a neighbour erroneously interpreted a recording session as domestic violence, the police officer told me he was turning off his body cam because he wanted to have a “private conversation” with me. I knew something was wrong, but I didn’t feel comfortable challenging a cop who’d just turned his camera off.
He told me that regardless of the fact that nothing happened (and I was the supposed victim), it’s “protocol” that one of us has to go, and it has to be the male. He gestured towards the Magic: the Gathering paraphernalia and the robotics stuff (robots, tools, etc) on my desk and said “I’d ask if you have any friends you can stay with, but who are we kidding? You don’t have any friends”. I asked him who he thinks I do these hobbies with and he just laughed.
I’ve had some good experiences with the police, but some of them are clearly just in it because they’re power-hungry bullies – or worse.
I’m not surprised at all
Never had a good experience with the Met and I’ve never been arrested, this is solely based on reporting crimes. One ran at me with a truncheon when he showed up to a neighbour’s psychotic episode I reported.
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David Carrick, a Metropolitan Police officer, admitted at least 80 sex attacks, including 47 rapes, against a dozen women. It means that one of the country’s worst sex offenders has been working at the force for 20 years. Carrick’s nickname at the Metropolitan Police was “Bastard Dave”. Top brass confirmed the nickname but insisted it was not because of sexual behaviour, plus that colleagues were unaware he was a predator. It was because, they say, he was known to be “mean and cruel”.
Even if the IOPC agrees they should be permanently struck off, they have these shady appeal panels who no-one knows who sits on them or how they are formed. The officer who smashed the car window of the black athlete Bianca Williams was sacked for gross misconduct, but the shady appeal panel overturned it. They even decided he should have back pay. Yvette Cooper had an opportunity to close this “loophole” in her crime bill when she was Home Secretary, but the section on accountability is wishy-washy at best.
My experience with the MET police, particularly Catford nick was absolutely diabolical, this was early 90s and looks like nothing has changed since.
And I was mocked when I suggested a facial recognition database of police officers.
These people are supposed to be public servants, they seem to have forgotten that.
Nothing to hide, nothing to gear and all that.
Anyone who wants to be a police officer almost certainly shouldn’t be allowed to be one.
My own dealings with the Met which was mercifully some years ago now revealed them to be absolutely fucking dangerously useless in every way. Apologies this will be long. Few years ago I was assaulted by a guy on my doorstep late at night coming back to my flat. Thank god I managed to fight him off and get inside the building which has a secure door. The police fuckery started mere hours later lol. Because I was in so much shock I didn’t immediately call it in, it was a few hours later in the early morning. The operator actually berated me for not calling straight away as “he could still be in the area”. Was absolutely gobsmacked and outraged by that but whatever. Later that day they did send two beat officers and I have to say they were the only good guys in the whole thing – they listened, they believed me, they didn’t victim-blame. Well done those guys they’ve probably been sacked by now or something stupid. After that I was assigned a Detective and they took the clothes I was wearing that night and a DNA saliva swab etc. Then heard absolutely diddly squat for months then eventually was asked to do a lineup – I’d given quite a detailed description. Reader, the entire folder of suspects were black men. The guy who attacked me…was not black. More months of silence roll by. I then get a call out of the blue from the Detective who tells me there’s “good news”. This is that they went to the suspect’s house and made an arrest. Only due to a misunderstanding they mistakenly arrested his (presumably entirely innocent) brother instead. But that good news? Well, turns out the actual guy was an illegal immigrant! So I should be grateful because they got him deported. I love that I was meant to feel happy that he could go ahead and attack women in his own country. Oh and it also took them fucking ages to return my clothes and I had to go to the police station myself to get them. Sigh. They were absolutely fucking useless and to be honest I would probably not report again
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Hold on.. Weren’t they all supposed to be woke now?
Wasn’t there some sort of scandal in Charing cross police station before. It’s time that police station was disbanded with officers being sent to other police stations. And reconstituted with police officers from other police stations
They aren’t very good a silencing these. Appears they’re kicking out everyone they can find
When a neighbour erroneously interpreted a recording session as domestic violence, the police officer told me he was turning off his body cam because he wanted to have a “private conversation” with me. I knew something was wrong, but I didn’t feel comfortable challenging a cop who’d just turned his camera off.
He told me that regardless of the fact that nothing happened (and I was the supposed victim), it’s “protocol” that one of us has to go, and it has to be the male. He gestured towards the Magic: the Gathering paraphernalia and the robotics stuff (robots, tools, etc) on my desk and said “I’d ask if you have any friends you can stay with, but who are we kidding? You don’t have any friends”. I asked him who he thinks I do these hobbies with and he just laughed.
I’ve had some good experiences with the police, but some of them are clearly just in it because they’re power-hungry bullies – or worse.
I’m not surprised at all
Never had a good experience with the Met and I’ve never been arrested, this is solely based on reporting crimes. One ran at me with a truncheon when he showed up to a neighbour’s psychotic episode I reported.
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David Carrick, a Metropolitan Police officer, admitted at least 80 sex attacks, including 47 rapes, against a dozen women. It means that one of the country’s worst sex offenders has been working at the force for 20 years. Carrick’s nickname at the Metropolitan Police was “Bastard Dave”. Top brass confirmed the nickname but insisted it was not because of sexual behaviour, plus that colleagues were unaware he was a predator. It was because, they say, he was known to be “mean and cruel”.
Even if the IOPC agrees they should be permanently struck off, they have these shady appeal panels who no-one knows who sits on them or how they are formed. The officer who smashed the car window of the black athlete Bianca Williams was sacked for gross misconduct, but the shady appeal panel overturned it. They even decided he should have back pay. Yvette Cooper had an opportunity to close this “loophole” in her crime bill when she was Home Secretary, but the section on accountability is wishy-washy at best.
My experience with the MET police, particularly Catford nick was absolutely diabolical, this was early 90s and looks like nothing has changed since.
And I was mocked when I suggested a facial recognition database of police officers.
These people are supposed to be public servants, they seem to have forgotten that.
Nothing to hide, nothing to gear and all that.
Anyone who wants to be a police officer almost certainly shouldn’t be allowed to be one.
My own dealings with the Met which was mercifully some years ago now revealed them to be absolutely fucking dangerously useless in every way. Apologies this will be long. Few years ago I was assaulted by a guy on my doorstep late at night coming back to my flat. Thank god I managed to fight him off and get inside the building which has a secure door. The police fuckery started mere hours later lol. Because I was in so much shock I didn’t immediately call it in, it was a few hours later in the early morning. The operator actually berated me for not calling straight away as “he could still be in the area”. Was absolutely gobsmacked and outraged by that but whatever. Later that day they did send two beat officers and I have to say they were the only good guys in the whole thing – they listened, they believed me, they didn’t victim-blame. Well done those guys they’ve probably been sacked by now or something stupid. After that I was assigned a Detective and they took the clothes I was wearing that night and a DNA saliva swab etc. Then heard absolutely diddly squat for months then eventually was asked to do a lineup – I’d given quite a detailed description. Reader, the entire folder of suspects were black men. The guy who attacked me…was not black. More months of silence roll by. I then get a call out of the blue from the Detective who tells me there’s “good news”. This is that they went to the suspect’s house and made an arrest. Only due to a misunderstanding they mistakenly arrested his (presumably entirely innocent) brother instead. But that good news? Well, turns out the actual guy was an illegal immigrant! So I should be grateful because they got him deported. I love that I was meant to feel happy that he could go ahead and attack women in his own country. Oh and it also took them fucking ages to return my clothes and I had to go to the police station myself to get them. Sigh. They were absolutely fucking useless and to be honest I would probably not report again
God I hope this is my story soon!!!
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