Institutionalised descrimination within the Police
I was pondering this yesterday after reading the article about the young girl who died in Hospital after suffering injuries from a head on collision. The driver of the car she was in crossed the centreline clipped one vehicle and crashed into another.
The driver was described as an elderly woman and the cause was suspected to be wind blowing the car sideways. There wasn't the usual comment about the police laying or thinking about laying charges.
Now if the driver was a young male would this still be the case?
Several years ago my wife rolled the family car 3 and a 1/2 times on the motorway. The police attended of course as well as the fire and ambulance. I also managed to get there within about 10 minutes of the accident and saw the scene with my own eyes. Now I'm fairly sure if I was driving I would have been prosecuted. But my wife had no such bad luck, the police where happy to OFFER the excuse of oil on the road, buggered if I could see much of the stuff there. I know the real reason for the accident and it wasn't oil!
Now the question here is.... Do the Police in general, or in part, have a preconceived notion that certain sections of society are not good drivers, do not have the skills to drive safely, and therefor are given allowance for this when they cause accidents?
Do you have any examples where you think this may have happened?
Some things are worth dying for, living is one of them.
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