General Lighting;324591 wrote:
that said I still don’t think there’s much empathy from normal people. Most normal people what don’t party or take drugs or protest only either have dealings with the cops if they break traffic laws, or are themselves a victim of crime. In the first case they often want cops to let them walk away even when they have driven in a dangerous manner – in the second they are often annoyed because cops can’t catch everyone instantly of if they know who the offenders are, because they cannot take vigilanté action against them without getting nicked themselves.
Could be true, obviously I’ve only ever really lived up here, where it’s different. We had the miner’s strikes, and general support for miners and police tactics that were used are still remembered. I’m reading the Politics of the Police (relating to police and discrimination, for my Uni course) and it attributes the Northern working class strikes as one of the most important events for changing opinions on the police, obviously predominantly up North.
Any working class area up here won’t trust police for shit, whether it’s your 20 year old or 80 year old.
