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I'm sure there are a lot of professional, intelligent police officers out there but I'm pretty disgusted with a lot of the ones in my neck of the woods.

A buddy of mine got stabbed to death in a parking lot by a guy that he knew. Should have been an open and shut case, what with witnesses and all. The town cops screwed the pooch on the investigation so badly that the animal that killed him is roaming the streets again.

This:
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http://www.unionleader.com/article.aspx?headline=Campton+suspect+wants+testimony+thrown+out&articleId=67f14d40-f564-4ac7-9e45-5331186980c0[/url]

Led to this:

http://www.unionleader.com/article.aspx?articleId=b169c978-6b44-48c3-bcd3-e65e98fe2c80&headline=Not+guilty+verdict+in+murder+of+Rumney+man

Sweet, sweet justice.

EDIT: Fixed second link. Thanks Emperor's Faithful!

Jeez. That's...that's such a piece of gak.

(BTW, both stories look the same to me, but I assume the motion was sucessful.)

About 15 years ago while at Uni a friend and I were walking back through Highgate High Street following a few bevies and I noticed flashlights in Barclays Bank.

Now my civic minded concern [and the fact that I banked there!] convinced me to call the Rozzers about this suspicsious activity. We then repared back to another local boozer for some lock-in type action while the boys in blue did their business.

Within a couple of minutes the rozzers had caught the culprets and dragged them away, rightly ignoring their claims of being cleaners and ignoring their cleaning equipment and keys to the building.

I bet those two old women are still doing chokey now, That'll learn 'em!

And just to add to the anecdotal evidence about teachers, my Mrs is also a teacher and some of the stories of incompetence and lazyness would make you cringe that these people are teaching your kids!

Did anyone ever see the cute t-shirt on a child that reads, 'D.A.R.E. I turned in my parents and all I got was this lousy t-shirt.'?

Ive never trusted police after I got assaulted by 6 hoodlums I never met and left bleeding in the streets. As the bastards were going back to their car I got the license plate number and the make and model on pad of paper in my army case which, apparently, they jumped me because I had "funny lookin' boxes" and his friend didnt like them.

So I made my way home and called the police and they sent someone about an hour later and gave them all the information. They took photographs of bruises and cuts and left saying they'll get back to me if they find anything.

Nothing, not a damn thing. After 6 months I decided to call the detective and ask him what was up and he leveled with me, since I wasnt hospitalized or seriously injured then my case became a "non priority" and in cases where multiple assailants are involved it is nearly impossible to get a conviction because they can just say they werent there or they didnt do the hitting.

So thanks alot cops. Go back to handing out speeding tickets to normal everyday people.

squilverine wrote:There was clearly no way these guys and what they were doing was legitimate so I phoned the Police to report this. I spent a good 10 minutes giving them descriptions of the blokes, the lorry and the contents (bear in mind the lorry was also full of kit which I couldn't make out). I said that it would be worth them checking out the whole operation as it screamed stollen goods and he assured me that there were people on the way.....

1 hour later and the lorry has gone, so have the dodgy blokes and all that is left are a few trashed electrical bits.

You should have said you thought you saw a gun.

That'll bring the cops over.

JohnHwangDD wrote:You should have said you thought you saw a gun.

That'll bring the cops over.

In the UK you need to say they were speeding or had an out of date tax disk for the lorry...

Whats a tax disk?

Frazzled wrote:Whats a tax disk?

It is a little piece of paper you have to display in your car window which shows that you have pair your road tax. It will have a date clearly displayed on it (as well as being different colours), so that any encorcement officer or agency can easily check whether you have an out of date tax disk.

They actually have dedicated checkpoints for them occasionally, where they will slow the traffic down and set up cameras to record everyone going through to capture the driver, car, plates, and tax disk.

Ok, like car registration. Gotcha. We have similar.

Frazzled wrote:Ok, like car registration. Gotcha. We have similar.

No, we have that as well.

Frazz has tax stickers for vehicles in Texas, too - unless they've gone ahead and seceded ONCE AGAIN!

...they should be on the license plate. When you pay your taxes, you get a new year sticker - the month sticker always stays the same.

Commissar Molotov wrote:Frazz has tax stickers for vehicles in Texas, too - unless they've gone ahead and seceded ONCE AGAIN!

...they should be on the license plate. When you pay your taxes, you get a new year sticker - the month sticker always stays the same.

Yep.

Secession, its not a job, its an adventure!

Ravenous D wrote:apparently, they jumped me because I had "funny lookin' boxes" and his friend didnt like them.

You were attacked by Firaeveus Carron?

SilverMK2 wrote:

Frazzled wrote:Whats a tax disk?

It is a little piece of paper you have to display in your car window which shows that you have pair your road tax. It will have a date clearly displayed on it (as well as being different colours), so that any encorcement officer or agency can easily check whether you have an out of date tax disk.

They actually have dedicated checkpoints for them occasionally, where they will slow the traffic down and set up cameras to record everyone going through to capture the driver, car, plates, and tax disk.

It's must be nice to live in a surveillance society.

It must be nice to be conceited.

I'm an American, so it comes with the territory.

A Brit calling someone else conceited? What has the world come to?

JohnHwangDD wrote:I'm an American, so it comes with the territory.

Same here.

GO TEAM CONCEIT!

JohnHwangDD wrote:It's must be nice to live in a surveillance society.

Not really... UK has 1% of world's population but 20% of its CCTV cameras

Although some of the figures in the article above are pretty fluffy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closed-circuit_television

I bet Burkhina Fasso and the Congo are well behind on their surveillance camera installation programmes.

Kilkrazy wrote:I bet Burkhina Fasso and the Congo are well behind on their surveillance camera installation programmes.

Not at all both cameras are fully installed and operational