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First and foremost, I have a very high regard for the british coppa. Right. Onwards. I don't know how coppers think. I appreciate they are engines of the law a
by throwaway_pdp09 6y ago
First and foremost, I have a very high regard for the british coppa.
Right. Onwards. I don't know how coppers think. I appreciate they are engines of the law and officially can't pick and choose (though in fact they can and do, when they can, quite wisely IME). But I could not do a job where I believe arresting someone for something harmless like various drug-takings is causing more harm than not arresting them.
A bad law causes damage by being bad. I could not enforce that. Ergo I could not do that job.
I use drug taking as an example and of course it's not a simple situation, but another one which is perhaps even simpler is - going back quite a few years - institutionalised legal discrimination against gays.
This isn't about drugs or gays, but about enforcing bad laws against your own conscience. I don't accept the view that it's the law so it must be enforced. Until we get better laws this friction must exist. So how do brit cops deal with it? Any here to illuminate?
- danpalmer 6y agoThis is an article about the US. The British police forces do not to my knowledge discriminate based on a higher than average IQ.