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I don't know if you're in the UK, but this isn't true for most of our police, certainly outside the cities. If anything, this fact is something they're proud of
by tomatocracy 7y ago
I don't know if you're in the UK, but this isn't true for most of our police, certainly outside the cities. If anything, this fact is something they're proud of.
As an example, I called them once (using a non emergency number before anyone says anything) because I was worried about a vulnerable relative who I couldn't get hold of and they were great - went to his house and called back to say he was fine, just couldn't hear the phone over the TV.
- keanzu 7y agoYou didn't report a faux crime, you requested a welfare check. But even a wellness check can go exceedingly wrong in the US. "He said he called a non emergency number for a wellness check. Smith said minutes later he heard a gunshot." https://www.npr.org/2019/10/13/769891781/fort-worth-officer-kills-woman-in-her-bedroom-in-response-to-open-structure-call https://www.npr.org/2019/10/13/769891781/fort-worth-officer-...
- rhn_mk1 7y agoThe US is irrelevant to the situation in the article.
- dragonsky 7y agoThe US seems to have a very strange relationship with its police.
- ben_w 7y agoThe US and UK police are about as different from each other as it’s possible to be while still being police. For example, the UK police do not routinely carry firearms.
- manigandham 7y agoOn the other hand, the UK police is dangerously close to arresting people for thought crime: https://www.google.com/search?q=uk+police+thought+crime https://www.google.com/search?q=uk+police+thought+crime