No, but sometimes the police have to act like police to stop crime.Brian Peacock wrote:You, like so many, mistakenly think the mere existence of a policeman is supposed to magically stop all crimes and misdemeanours.
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A rational skeptic should be able to discuss and debate anything, no matter how much they may personally disagree with that point of view. Discussing a subject is not agreeing with it, but understanding it.
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And in the USA "to act like police to stop crime" means shooting people dead a lot more often than in the UK and other civilised countries.Tyrannical wrote:No, but sometimes the police have to act like police to stop crime.Brian Peacock wrote:You, like so many, mistakenly think the mere existence of a policeman is supposed to magically stop all crimes and misdemeanours.
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Well you can't have black people committing such crimes as: driving cars, or caring for disabled people.
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Precisely. Give them an inch...
Yeah well that's just, like, your opinion, man.
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This is it in a nutshell, Policing by consent (of the people) rather than being the military wing of the government helps a lot. There are still problems with this as Brain alluded to but on the whole it make for a better co-operation with the police and the populence.Brian Peacock wrote:We still police by consent here, not by force. This is an important concept for a civilised nation. In fact, Chief police officers are among the most vocal opponents of loose-lipped political calls to paramilitarise the police and we're still happy to call it a police service. Not that a British Bobby won't use a tazer, pepper spray, or the US-style night stick which has replaced the truncheon on you if you give 'em stick. And the old-fashioned 'honest coppering' (a good shoeing) is still deployed here and there - though not so often at the top of the stairs at the cop shop as it used to be: "At this juncture m'lud, the defendant tripped and fell out of his sandals."
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What's the crime though, apples to apples? What if we just focus on the drug market, how do we compare?
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Yeah, but, Swedish police.

Your argument is invalid.
http://abcnews.go.com/International/off ... d=41040695

Your argument is invalid.
http://abcnews.go.com/International/off ... d=41040695
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I've been interrogated by the British police and it was fucking scary. They were nice too mind you.
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It appears that it may actually be kind of tough to find reliable data about such questions.
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...or six...laklak wrote:Precisely. Give them an inch...
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How about fuck Sweden. They are a bunch of lefty/liberal mentally ill cunts aka cucks.Animavore wrote:Yeah, but, Swedish police.
Your argument is invalid.
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http://www.breitbart.com/london/2016/08 ... st-us-all/
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You're un-American!DaveDodo007 wrote:This is it in a nutshell, Policing by consent (of the people) rather than being the military wing of the government helps a lot. There are still problems with this as Brain alluded to but on the whole it make for a better co-operation with the police and the populence.Brian Peacock wrote:We still police by consent here, not by force. This is an important concept for a civilised nation. In fact, Chief police officers are among the most vocal opponents of loose-lipped political calls to paramilitarise the police and we're still happy to call it a police service. Not that a British Bobby won't use a tazer, pepper spray, or the US-style night stick which has replaced the truncheon on you if you give 'em stick. And the old-fashioned 'honest coppering' (a good shoeing) is still deployed here and there - though not so often at the top of the stairs at the cop shop as it used to be: "At this juncture m'lud, the defendant tripped and fell out of his sandals."

And what's populence?


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