I'm glad the fines leveled on OP were dropped, proves that you can and should beat them when they pull this crap
What surprises me is the reaction of some KB members who claim to represent the police, these people have been trying to push the blame around and twist the facts to blindly support all police (and failing to see that some of them are unfair toward sections of society or people they don't like)
What I would like to have read form these people is: "These are the appropriate phone numbers to get in touch with somebody who will investigate your allegations, we must do everything we can to better the public opinion of the police force by getting rid of these bad apples" or something to that effect.
These people accept anything a cop says because you should be able to trust the police, it is true they are a cross section of society just like anything else but I think the power the job commands attracts alot of these assholes and these people come across alot of temptation. I think these have likely driven that percentage alot higher than any of us would like.
I have been on the wrong side of some asshole cops in the past (I've seen friends go to jail on lying cops testimony also) and it ruins your faith in the police and the system
The biggest problem is the cops are spending all their resorces policing something that everyone does, so it takes alot of manpower to police. They should pull some of those resources to go after real criminals, the bottom 1% rather than the bottom 80%.
I have over the years been a victim of several robberies (a couple including assault too) a car theft and a home invasion among other things. This happens in society so I move on with my life but in most of these cases I gave the police some pretty solid evidence, that they never act on, the NSW police in australia used a robbery against me to get mine, my gf and all my flatmates fingerprints, told us they were for elimination purposes and each of us would get the originals back (I'll bet you anything my prints are on file in Australia) and in one case I handed the police a suspect and they told me they raided these peoples homes looking for my stuff. I have it on two indepndant, reliable sources that they did not.
For the record in pretty much any situation I wouldn't bother calling the cops if I need them, they tend to be mostly useless in my experience (except their presence is effective at diffusing alot of situations). I believe they are necessary to our society but they seem to be too interested in getting people in jail and giving out fines to bother checking that they have the right people. And the court system being impartial is a joke, if you don't have a jury and its your word against a cop (even if all the evedence points to your innocence) you are going to jail.
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