Seriously, I thought it wasn't safe to trust police in the states, how can you guys possibly feel safe? I love London and would actually be pretty happy to live there some day, but your government and law enforcement are very unsettling.
So how are you Londoners not terrified of the Met yet?
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The police can't do much having very little power nowadays, though they did contain the G20 summit quite well. Still I'd be more afraid of American cops who seem to frequently arrest and taser for people for petty or non existent reasons.
The rediculous amount by which the Police are restricted and any infraction that causes physical harm scares me.
As for the guy killed during the riots. The copper happened to shake the blockage into just the wrong place. It would have happened naturally in time anyway.
As for the guy killed during the riots. The copper happened to shake the blockage into just the wrong place. It would have happened naturally in time anyway.
A) He means a couple frustrated cops angered by recent strikes/pay issues that pushed over that guy (who had a heart condition, very unfortunate) / beat that lady in the face.
B) He means the guy that was shot in the back of the head because he ran and jumped the barrier, on the same day that police had intel that a bomber WAS coming, after people were still feeling aftershocks from the underground bombings.
C)He's afraid of the titty-helmet. This point is wrong, we are all afraid of the titty-helmet
B) He means the guy that was shot in the back of the head because he ran and jumped the barrier, on the same day that police had intel that a bomber WAS coming, after people were still feeling aftershocks from the underground bombings.
C)
he died because he was fat not because a cop killed him.. its just like sending someone to jail for pushing someone over then in the next couple of hours he dies from a heart attack.... wait thats what happened 
The only thing I fear in London is being mugged or beaten up outside a pub.
Why, what have you heard?
Why, what have you heard?
This is the excuse neo-conservatives use constantly in the states to justify the possibility of phonetapping and any other surveillance made on our people. I don't buy it here and I wouldn't buy it in London, either. Surveillance doesn't prevent crime, it only proves that it happened, and when it comes to violent crime (the crime that really matters) there is always a victim, a witness, and evidence that will all sufficiently prove the crime, assuming it actually happened.iain62a said:
And all of you are forgetting about that serial rapist who went unhalted by the Met for years, sexually assaulting/raping dozens of womens in the process, and was only just arrested, what, last month?
JJDWilson said:
You guys are aware that he didnt die of a heart attack...an independent (i.e. non-police appointed) post mortem showed he died of internal bleeding.A13X T3h NubCak3 said:he died because he was fat not because a cop killed him.. its just like sending someone to jail for pushing someone over then in the next couple of hours he dies from a heart attack.... wait thats what happened
On the main issue, admittedly the police over-reacted, but 3 policeman acting out, out of several hundred should not be a major concern for people.
Were English you see
As Winston Churchill once said during WWII "keep calm and carry on", t'is an English tradition to carry life on as normal during catastrophes, and simply hope your not "that unlucky bastard".
As Winston Churchill once said during WWII "keep calm and carry on", t'is an English tradition to carry life on as normal during catastrophes, and simply hope your not "that unlucky bastard".