> I also feel some sympathy for the officers involved. The police are a brainwashing operation on young impressionable minds. In many ways they are also victims

> I also feel some sympathy for the officers involved. The police are a brainwashing operation on young impressionable minds. In many ways they are also victims of the state. On that subject, after his undercover deployment Bob Lambert (the officer TFA is about) went on to run the Special Demonstration Squad, and in that capacity was the boss of Jim Boyling, who also had a number of sexual relationships with unsuspecting members of the public. Just to make the victim / perpetrator question a bit more interesting.