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Your experience is not universal. Out of myself and many young friends, there are few bad dealings with Police and mostly positive. Including people convicted a

• madaxe_again 13y ago
  Fair enough. My experiences have left me very cop-shy. In 2007 I had removers sho, rather than taking my belongings from A to B, took them from A to an auction house. The police started with a stance of "it's a civil matter" and ended with a stance of "we will prosecute you for wasting police time". In 2002 my girlfriend at the time was receiving unsettling, perverse text messages from an unknown number. When I responded in an equally threatening tone, I had a call the next morning from East Kolbride police for sending a threatening communication to a police officer. In 1996, I was arrested for being outside in the snow, aged 13. I was kept in a holding cell and denied food, water, or the means to contact my parents. I have a very, very low opinion of the efficacy of the current application of the rule of law.