I am a former Civil Servant and “amateur criminologist” who has been monitoring the way cops deal with crime and other issues for over 10 years now (comes naturally from the days I was a rave organiser),
over this time I have come to what may initially seem to be a surprising conclusion that Whitehall and the senior ranks of the Police are more liberally minded than many normal citizens… consider what the Inspector of Constabulary said which is a massive attempt to change Police attitude for the better compared to even 10 years ago, then consider how many normal people complain that “the cops don’t do enough about crime/drugs/anything they happen to disagree with”
if government/policing was really left to the people (particularly traditional working class and Middle Englanders), we’d actuallly have a more authoritarian nation similar to Singapore, but much more bitterly divided…
