PRIVILEGEFragile female cop causes 16 year old autistic girl to be dragged out of her home kicking and screaming by seven officers and arrested for “Homophobic Publc Order Offense” for saying “You look like my lesbian nana” in her own home.

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[–]Haylstorm 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

It's worse for everyone when they get fast tracked. Those extra years of experience can have a huge impact. Look at any job and compare how you are on year one to year five to year ten. I absolutely do some things differently in my role than when I started. For all we know the extra time could've made them competent in the role, instead it's just going to make everyone assume that anyone else there are diversity hires rather than genuinely skilled.

Locally our police are really really good. My friend has a grandmother that has dementia and has wandered off a few times (they have a tracker now) and even when she's kicked off at them and called them all slurs they've just sort of taken it in stride and got her home/to the hospital for a checkup. Though that might be because one of them apparently also had a grandparent with dementia and knows it's the disease not the person. But that isn't everyone's experience. I'd hate for this kind of rot to take hold here.

[–]ClassroomPast6178[S] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Locally our police are really really good. My friend has a grandmother that has dementia and has wandered off a few times (they have a tracker now) and even when she's kicked off at them and called them all slurs they've just sort of taken it in stride and got her home/to the hospital for a checkup. Though that might be because one of them apparently also had a grandparent with dementia and knows it's the disease not the person. But that isn't everyone's experience. I'd hate for this kind of rot to take hold here.

It’s important to remember that there are still good people in these organisations. It’s too easy to get sucked into believing that they are all useless, incompetent or malicious.

We had a murder outside our house six weeks ago, the cops shut the busy road off trapping us indoors for the best part of 72 hours. But they were brilliant at handling all the people who tried to walk or drive through the cordon. Even when they were canvassing and knocked on my door they were very apologetic about the trouble and explained what was going on. Really couldn’t fault them on anything, even though I couldn’t take my elderly father out of the house at all for all that time.

Edit: yes, South London, yes, a stabbing, yes, the demographic you are thinking and yes, gang-related.

[–]Haylstorm 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yeah they do do their best I think. It's just that you only really hear about the bad cases. Not really news when the police do 'routine' things like our experiences despite it being (I hope) the vast majority of cases. Some of what they deal with would genuinely break me and I can see that having an impact too.