Quote Originally Posted by Joy_Division View Post
of today's police force? They attend very few burglary calls, they don't arrest and prosecute shop lifters. We don't have community coppers patrolling streets anymore becoming an assuring face you can get to know.

We had a police force who seemed to care about the job years ago but also there was a tough side to them as well.

In 1983 I witnessed the police baton charging us on picket lines for the NGA. They clubbed us, dragged people behind buildings and gave them a good kicking but then let them go so others could see what could happen to them. They smashed the NGA control van up so Union leaders could not control the pickets. Myself and some others were chased over half a mile away from the picket lines and ended up hiding in somebody's garden to avoid getting hammered.

Yet today, they stand idly by while idiots stop traffic, ambulances, people going to work, goods etc. Why don't they drag them out of the way and let the traffic move. I don't want a police state but I do want a police force that is fit for purpose.
You old rascal.😃