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.
I have one negative experience with the police that now comes to mind. I was chatting to 3 homeless people. For about an hour (one was a friend of a friend). As I was walking away 1 or them literally mugged a pensioner. I didn't see it. The police didn't want my witness statement. Because I had been facing away from the action when the woman grabbed the cash and ran. Then the defence lawyer found me. Got my witness statement and made the police look rather foolish. 2 of them copped a plea because my evidence made them look really bad and the 3rd had his charges dropped. I was able to testify to it being an unplanned crime of opportunity so the mugger and her boyfriend who was happy to take his share of the money went down for it and the friend of a friend who just panicked and ran got off. I understand the magistrate was quite peeved the police hadn't picked up on this.