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Do You Have Faith in Your Local Police? |
| Date: |
13/05/07 (78 review reads) |
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Advantages: Erm, cant really think of any
Disadvantages: well, where do i start?!
Erm, short answer... No! In my opinion, and thats all it is, so feel free to disagree, the police are a total and utter waste of time, space and money.
When i was 14 i was a member of an unofficial group of army cadets. It was run by a copper called Tony White, or Chalky. One day i, with a group of others, was on the parade square taking part in our drill or whatever it was called (it was 11 years ago now!), and someone shot me in the hip. The coppers sons were on leave from the marines, and were at the cadet hut visiting their dad, as they often did. The ran off after the blokes who had shot me and caught one of them, and one of their .22 re sprung air rifles. Chalky pointed it at the guys head and asked "is it loaded?" the guy said no, so chalky pulled the trigger. It was loaded. An ambulance and police car came (for some reason only one ambulance) and me and the guy were put in the back of the ambulance. I was handcuffed to the bed because they thought i was gonna beat the living crap out of him (how well they knew me!). Long story short, the guy was never prosecuted for shooting me because he made a deal with the police - if they said there was no evidence to suggest that he shot me, then he wouldn't say that it was chalky that shot him. The paper work was lost and that was that. Chalky then turned out to be a paedophile and had apparently abused and raped half of the female cadets. He was finally arrested.
When i was 19 a drunk bloke in the middle of the road when my car was stopped waiting for him to cross, lept at my car, bounced on the bonnet and caused £800 worht of damage. He did a runner but his contract mobile phone fell out of his pocket and it had been right in front of a cctv camera, so i went to the police station to report him. I wanted the damage to my car paid for. 2 weeks later i hadn't heard anything so i went to the station to investigate. The mobile phone had vanished and there was no clear view of him on the cctv. Although i could identify him exactly, that wasnt enough and the police decided there wasnt enough evidence to prosecute. They dropped it all.
When i was 19 again, a drunk driver went into the back of my car whilst i was stopped at traffic lights at 70 mph and wrote off my car. A witness called the police for me. The driver drove off and the police never turned up. I had waited over an hour, then i really had to go to the hospital because i had lost so much blood in the accident that i kept passing out. The driver reported it to his insurance that night and because he did so, they couldnt do him for failing to report an accident or not stopping at the scene. Because the police never turned up at the time, they couldnt do him for drink driving.
When i was 22 my ex boyfriend beat the living shit out of me. I called the police who, 2 days later, said there was insufficient evidence to press charges. Apparently they thought either i walked into a door, or my daughter, who was 18 months old at the time, had beat me up.
Do i think the police are worth their wages... would you?
Summary: A waste of the tax payers money. A waste of space.
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