On Sat, 22 Mar 2008 16:35:35 +0000, MM wrote:
>On Fri, 21 Mar 2008 20:41:43 -0700 (PDT), narsanam@gmail.com wrote:
>
>>On 22 Mar, 00:55, Mike wrote:
>>> narsa...@gmail.com wrote:
>>
>>> That's not quite true. They're keen to "lord it over" the peasants.
>>> Claiming whatever you're doing is somehow illegal, simply facilitates that.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Mike
>>
>>That does seem to be increasingly true that in the absence of actual
>>knowledge they enforce what they think should be the law. Not long ago
>>I had a plain clothes WDC stop me and insist that photographing
>>government buildings was illegal. Eventually a senior uniformed
>>officer turned up ( DCI I think) and agreed with me that it wasn't
>>illegal.
>>The amusing thing was that the WDC' parting shot was to say " Well, if
>>it's not illegal it should be".
>
>To what extent would the police willingly beat up members of the
>public in order to cut down on lengthy prosecutions?
Brixton should have discouraged that attitude but sadly not. In Some
force areas they have a tendency to beat the crap out of suspects then
charge them with resisting arrest. I've posted a few examples here
over the last couple of years
> I'm thinking here
>of the mindset, rather than the legality.
>
>Would the practice encourage or discourage recruitment?
>
You've seen the videos
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