‘Public Offenders’

I did not expect that there would be such a keen interest in my posts about the police (see the lists of popular posts on the right). This post is a general reflection on the situation. When the police commit an offence – say they set you up, or raid your property, or hand you threats – if this does not endanger you in the first place, it may well do so in time – and more so. Say you get behind what is going on. You have the evidence in hand (in my case, in someone else’s hands) – enough to prove some things. You now become -- so to speak -- an offender to the police, who in fact created you in the first place. Now add to this that there are no authorities to deal with the situation decisively. You have now set up powerful forces (something I both perceive and know about), and you are now at greater risk than you ever were. In an ideal world, a member of the public, who discovers police offences, is graciously received, and thanked, and defended. Instead they get treated as though they themselves were the chief offender. OBSERVATION: One does not wish the police any trouble. And one needs to keep in mind that there are exemplary officers.