Published on 12, July, 2020
Recently in another thread, a few of us started talking about our experiences at the hands of our police force, in the "Autistic son" thread and the discussion took an unexpected turn, where a number of people stepped up including myself, to pass comment.
Subsequently, an organised assault was made on several of people's accounts, where our complaints and refusal to accept the reframing of truth offered by the pro-police faction was said to be "abuse". I've since spent a fair bit of time talking to my mostly NT friends and acquaintances about their experiences, with our modern police force, and it seems my experiences are not so unique.
Most people I know have very little involvement with the police, and generally are complimentary UNTIL they DO need some help and find out how it really works. Here of course, we are more likely to have interactions with them directly, so there is a greater pool of experience available.
SO PLEASE:
Down vote me. if you believe they serve us well, and up vote me if your think they serve someone or something else who isn't us, the paying public.
If you have any stories (good or bad) which you wish to share, feel free to do that, below.
Tried to do a POLL as requested & got an incomprehensible error message and today is not a day where I feel like struggling with someone else's software. (Having used & administrated forums by https://www.phpbb.com/ mostly, I'm not finding this one easy to work with at all).
Just up or down vote my OP using teh little up down arrows. Be careful though, once you've clicked on up or down, your vote is in and can be changed, but not undone.
It's a yes no question, and both the scores and voters are transparent to the audience.
Police caused my near death and bunkriuptcy for accessing scam website. CPS lied in court. I was genuinely dealing with intrusive thoughts therapeutically.
Good heavens! That sounds terrible.
Difficult to charge the police with criminality and impossible to make a complaint that is looked at fairly.
There is no police ombudsman and the complaints system is rigged in their favour
our ombudsman is not a policeman and is independent of the police
the more it is used the better it gets ---- any time i lived in England i felt very sorry for the English police. They quite often approach very dangerous situations on their own !
1. they need to be armed with tasers at a minimum and chest cameras to collect evidence
2. their numbers should be doubled with a big push for black,asian, and women PC
I have complained a couple of times all that happens is you see some high ranking officer who apologizes alot which is ok but doesn't really change anything . On one occasion they used a doctored confidential social services report of my wife age 12, as evidence to arrest her when she was heavily pregnant , that one was an apology but very stressful and shouldn't of happened . It does seem very hit and miss.
yes where i live we have an ombudsman that deals with complaints