On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 06:20:56PM +0000, Paul Corfield wrote:

Almost all properly trained policemen and women are capable of
exercising appropriate discretion, judgement and civility in their
dealings with the public.

They are? Coulda fooled me. The impression I've got from dealing with
the filth a few times is that people only join the police because
they're too stupid to do anything productive and too nasty to be allowed
to join the army.

It comes as a pleasant surprise when the occasional officer turns out to
not fit that, but they are few and far between.

This way they get the respect they deserve in
return.

Oh they certainly get the respect from me that they deserve.

If I had the choice of 1,000 properly trained policemen vs 2,500
community support officers I'd go for the 1,000 policemen every time.

Indeed. 1500 fewer arseholes in uniform has to be a good thing.

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