Lambeth LBGT Police forum

[Streathamite]

This is addictive!

This is the first copper I've evr come across who has had the imagination and sheer common sense to open up a police/public
channel of communication in this way.
I'm really beginning to warm to this bloke...hope to god the Met hierarchy don't fuck hoim over.

 

[RubyToogood]

Bumped for historical interest...

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Just read the thread for the first time.

In light of current events, it's a little like watching a suicide....

I think colin is/was a cop. Someone, maybe sonicdancer, said he can't be, because cops have contempt for criminals, but like regular people.

In my experience, cops have(maybe by necessity) an us vs them attitude that hardens into contempt for all civilians, criminal or non.

With exceptions, of course...

 

[agricola]

i fail to see how someone can be a police officer and have contempt for people; that said in this country we dont dress in red

 

[Aussie88]

Post edited?

I'm curious to know why my post was edited? - are my views about police having a duty to serve the *elected* lawmakers rather than their own opinions not welcome? Or just too boringly accurate.

I would simply request that the editor post what I placed on the net previously as I feel it was pretty balanced, fair minded and extremely releavnt to this "debate".

 

[Aussie88]

A cop's view.

I just love the comments running down ALL the other cops in the world in this debate! Hooray - you have found a cop you love! That is fantastic. I'm happy for you all - and it is great to win a popularity contest too. Still some of us DUMB cops believe in the notion of doing our duty in terms of enforcing the laws made by the ELECTED lawmakers, rightly or wrongly. Against this we are given discretion to grapple with - a clear conflict for sure.

I am all for the Commander opening up this debate BUT I am not in support of cops deciding which laws they will enforce and which they will not WHEN it is laws that ARE so politically charged (that is there is clear public opinion in various directions - NOT just one way).

Hope you have the intergrity to print this and my previous post too.

 

[editor]

Aussie88: I can assure you I have neither edited nor seen your previous comments, but feel free to post them again.

 

[johnwisehammer]

Aussie: sometimes the board just doesn't work for some reason - very little gets censored around here that's not advertising. It can be a bit frustrating when you've written something half-decent but no software is perfect. You're not perhaps getting your threads mixed up, are you old chap? It's not on the Guns/Crack thread?

 

[Geezah]

Originally posted by ColinTheCopper


Sorry, no I wasn't in the police then. My first biggy was the Poll Tax in 1990 in Trafalgar square and since then all the RTS and Mayday protests.

Just think, that policeman who reduced your skull to mush with his stick might have been me.... [/B]

Oi You, You are exactly the type of neo-natal example ofpolicing that made good coppers leave the force in droves because you cannot get the support of the locals if your idea of policing is to use maximum force with minimum evidence.

If you ever went through Hendon, you know DAMN WELL that you are going to get abuse from every member of the community YOU SERVE at some point, and your comments on this public forum show that you either have no interest in promoting public support and more in a crass "come on then, you want some" us and them mentality They, are us,you arrogant little man. If, as you say you get the police you deserve, then I feel for the communities that you are sworn to serve right now. Because no one deserves a copper who despises the very people you joined the force to protect from harm...

Not all coppers are the same, not all people are the same. Did you learn nothing in basic?

 

[TopCat]

I forgot Brian liked the big dog analogy. How long will he last in his leafy jungle?

 

[Pickman's model]

harry roberts is our friend is our friend is our friend..you ain't colin you are a pig cunt....

let him out to shoot some more