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I agree with Chief...the Police need to do more themselves.

Everything is getting put onto Joe Publics consciousness...it's pathetic.
 
My stepdaughter has been going to Police cadets for the last 4 years and decided to go into a career in the Metropolitan police.

She is a bright girl and a lovely girl .

It is a bit scary thinking that she may be patrolling London and have to face violent armed lunatics but it's her choice.

If she is just seen as a Uniform by society and not deserving of empathy if she gets hurt or killed like some on here have expressed, then that is very concerning as human beings.

Maybe, yes.

No one on here has said that though?

It's not society's job to protect the police, it's the government's job to ensure they have the tools to carry out their role.

They should be armed in major cities, I'm fully in support of that. The police's support weapon isn't ever going to be me if I happen to be walking past though, sorry.

The police do **** all to eradicate local petty crime against the general public and I will do **** all to put my life on the line in return.

Not the police officers fault, I'm fully aware of that, but that's how things currently are.
 
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I think it very much depends on your 'natural reaction' at the time ... my missus always urges me not to get involved because of what might happen to me and what that might mean for her, the kids, etc ... but I've always hated any kind of bullying or unfair fight and would find it difficult to do 'nothing' ...

When I was in my 20s one of my cousins and me were walking through the city centre after kick-out time when we happened on a bloke and his missus at a taxi rank having a heated row - lots of people in the queue just laughing at them - she was screaming like a banshee at him and eventually he just full on punched her in the mush, knocking her down - people in the queue didn't want to get involved but we stepped in and tried to reason with him - he started swinging at us but was so pissed he couldn't lay one on either of us - she gets up off the floor, she's as pissed as him it turns out, takes her shoe off then tries to whack both me and my cousin over the head with the heel <doh> ... with that we left them to it <laugh> ...
That’s an excellent non-violent solution. Bore them into submission recounting stories of your youth.
 
Maybe, yes.

No one on here has said that though?

It's not societies job to protect the police, it's the government's job to ensure they have the tools to carry out their role.

They should be armed in major cities, I'm fully in support of that. The police's support weapon isn't ever going to be me if I happen to be walking past though, sorry.

The police do **** all to eradicate local petty crime against the general public and I will do **** all to put my life on the line in return.

Not the police officers fault, I'm fully aware of that, but that's how things currently are.

FFS <doh> <laugh>
 
This innocent bystander in Melbourne last week with the shopping trolley is a ****ing legend <laugh>

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This innocent bystander in Melbourne last week with the shopping trolley is a ****ing legend <laugh>

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You see how the Cops were just trying to dodge him...would Joe Public be expected to do the same?

I saw many openings for a sweet uppercut on the guy...but would I be ok to risk smashing his jaw in or would I be in trouble myself? The big man can't punch for ****
 
It’s not cut and dry. I wouldn’t be bothered if a nobhead Cop was getting leathered by somebody who’d had enough of his ****, that’s for sure.

One time I helped somebody who was getting filled in he ran off and left me scrapping with the two lads who jumped him. <laugh>
 
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You see how the Cops were just trying to dodge him...would Joe Public be expected to do the same?

I saw many openings for a sweet uppercut on the guy...but would I be ok to risk smashing his jaw in or would I be in trouble myself? The big man can't punch for ****
He wasn't punching he was swinging a machete after trying to blow up gas bottles in his car and killing an old man as well as chopping away at other random people.
 
This is the incident Pixy is talking about , unfortunately the people attacking the police after a routine traffic stop are black so it's not their fault.

There aren't enough Youth clubs or the police are underfunded or something.


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