Good thread SP, I have say while I've met a few over the years who have been decent and went about their job in a professional manner, the rest of them are in my book, racist and bigoted arseholes.Ach, I can hold my own with that lot, Dil, but it's the young lads, like CR's grandson, I worry about.
They forget that they are public servants and act like they are some sort of authority. It's one thing to enforce the law, it's another thing completely to make it up as you go along and that's what these clowns try to do.
They've become even more sleekit since the emergence of mobile phones and they're all in collusion with each other to cover their backs.
It's often said that there are plenty more good fuzz than bad fuzz and that's just not true. The so-called 'good' fuzz are equally as bad if they let the rogue fuzz get away with it.
I hope everything works out for Rose's grandson, but they are persistent bastards and they have long memories too.
Before I became a more sensible adult, I had a few run ins with the law, and when you have a particularly Irish name, this can lead to things escalating rather quickly from having a conversation to being locked up for a weekend on charges that would never see the light of day in a court. I have to take some responsibility for this, after all, none of Police Alba's finest like being told about how ugly their mother must have been to produce such an ugly bastard of a child, but I only ever gave them a mouthful once I knew I was being fucked over for no other reason than having an Irish name.