Cynic wrote:
|| On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 08:42:44 +0000, MM wrote:
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|||| Obviously there is an agenda here.
||||
|||| You express your outrage at what has happened...
||||
|||| But if anyone tries to help you by explaining the whole truth to
|||| you, you go into hysterics.
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|||| So how do we help you human beings?
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||| Perhaps by getting police officers with at least two brain cells
||| between their ears. Following that, the police using a bit of common
||| sense might be in order.
||
|| Imagine the following: You are a police officer called to the scene
|| after a person has complained of having been assaulted. The
|| complainant has visible injuries which she accuses another person of
|| infliction. The other person admits that there was an altercation,
|| but denies the assault.
||
|| What do you consider to be a "common sense" approach: (a) arrest the
|| person accused on suspicion of assault and see whether there is
|| evidence to support a conviction? (b) always believe the
|| complainant? (c) always believe the accused? (d) Believe whoever is
|| the older person?
d) Gather as much information as possible regarding *both* allegations of
assault, and where they are found to be trivial, inform both parties that
they may be reported for summons. Then get on and do some proper police
work.
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Rob
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