I Sometimes Wonder Why We Bother

I was flicking through the other blogs I like reading earlier and saw this on 200 Weeks' blog.

The post itself is the normal top fair from 200, but I was drawn by one of the comments left below. Just in case I haven't put the link in properly above (which wouldn't be the first time) I'll cut and paste the comment here:

fuck all pigs says:

Great news as another Nazi pig gets put down. What a wonderful week it is now. shame the guy did not stick a few more Nazi pigs before they got him.

Someone should dig up the dirty pig cut off the baldheaded Nazi cunts head and stick it on a lamp post in luton town center, as a warning of what all pig scum should get for being a traitor to the man on the street.

and may may more of the scum follow this scum to an early grave in the most painful way possible.

every dead pig is a victory for the people.

I should apologise first for the language in the post. I thought it was worth people reading it in it's glorious entirety.

Now, given the poster's name is "Fuck All Pigs" (and assuming this isn't referring to their weird sex life) I'm going to assume this guy isn't our biggest fan.

I posted a comment on the blog too making a couple of generalisations about them based on what I've found during my career. They may be right, they may be wrong, and I guess I'll find out by what they reply, but here goes.

Firstly, some people aren't that keen on the Police because of some personal situation. Maybe we've let them down at some point (because, like everyone else, we sometimes make mistakes) or maybe it took us longer than we'd have liked to respond to a call due to the fact that there aren't that many of us.

Whatever the reason, I can normally sympathise with these people and try to do my best to make sure that their latest experience of the Police is a lot better. I'd get a lot of personal satisfaction if I knew that they had changed their opinion in some way because I'd put the effort in.

Then there's the person who HATES the Police. And they're normally quite vocal about it, shouting things like, "I hate the Police".

My normal response is then to ask how many times they've been arrested. The answer's normally somewhere between "several" and "lots".

You see, I've learned that the people who HATE the Police normally do so because we keep catching them breaking the law. And then locking them up for it.

I've lost count of the amount of times I've been accused of harassment because I've stopped the same person for the umpteenth time. ( I once searched the same heroin addict three times in the space of about two hours. The third time he accused me of harassment. I told him that I'd stop searching him when he stopped stealing things. I didn't see him in the town for a couple of months after that. Job done!)

They normally hate us because they're on bail and we do bail checks at midnight to make sure they're not out burgling people's houses. They don't hate us specifically for being on their doorstep; it's more to do with the fact that they can't commit crime because of it.

Then there's the person who hates the Police because all we do is spoil their fun. The fact that their fun involves causing a nuisance for everyone else (who has called us to complain) doesn't really come into their thinking. The bottom line is, in their eyes, they're doing nothing wrong and we're just facist pig baby killers who are agents of a Police State. (They like saying things like that. They once heard somebody else say it on some film or other and it makes them feel very "Che Guevara" to repeat it!)

This is a youtube video from a student "party" that was broken up by Police in Leeds recently. It's just one of loads. If you search under "hessle avenue raid" or similar you'll find lots of comments about The Police State on there.




It's impossible to reason with these people. They are always right and, though they love to spout on about free speech this only applies if you actually agree with them. If you don't agree, it's probably because you're a sexist, racist, facist pig.

The point behind this rather long-winded post is that, regardless of the crap we take from these people, regardless of the abuse they dish out at us, we still go running to their aid whenever they ask for it.

I mean, if they get jumped on their way home after a hard nights yoghurt eating and beanbag sitting who are they going to call? Their mate "Sundance", the committed pacifist? Nope, they're gonna dial 999 and expect us to get there as soon as possible.

I wonder what their reaction would be if we turned up and found some right wing idiot cleaning their boots on the callers face and we just said, "well, sir, this skinhead does have the right to express himself. I don't want to make him feel oppressed in any way." I'm bloody sure they'd be screaming for us to chuck him in the meat wagon, demanding we gave him a kicking.

So, to Fuck All Pigs and all of your like out there I've got this to say. I know you hate me, and I know that you're not going to change your mind any time soon. I also know that, when we meet, you're going to call me all the names under the Sun and treat me in a way that you'd never want to be treated yourself. I know all this, but still I'm here for you. The next time you're in the sh*t with nowhere else to turn, you know where to find me.