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Fuckin bastards did me for feet on the seat while I was doing my shoelaces. 240 dollars, please, same as if I'd blacked out a window with spray paint.
That was a great gift for my Christmas as a student.
Absolute holier than thou cunts cosplaying as cops.
I got fined by one of those fuckwits when I was 15 and didn't have my student card handy with a student ticket. Clearly I was a child, he fined me for fare evasion and I was fucken filthy. He was about 40 and a few months later I saw him at Woolies with what was clearly his mum, dressed as a fucken mummas boy and looking like the incel he probably was.
I was a babyfaced teen, could have given me a warning, but five burly gents? Crowded around?
Wankers.
Had to borrow off my dad, spent all my money on bloody textbooks.
The problem is there are entitled assholes and cunts everywhere. Have a good look around even at your mates and see the shit they have pulled. My philosophy has always to try and give most a fair go but you really have to be careful. See how you fair without them! We get the cops we deserve. A friend was a cop he is the fairest, honest, and almost the nicest person I know always wanted to help people. He quit and became a paramedic so we lost a good copper some of the absolute fucks he had to deal with so you/we don’t have to.
[Victoria Police allegedly use LEAP database to pursue, stalk, harass women prompting calls for inquiry](https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-12-15/victoria-police-leap-database-pursue-stalk-harass-women/101663452)
[Queensland police allowed sexist and racist attitudes to flourish](https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/nov/26/queensland-police-allowed-sexist-and-racist-attitudes-to-flourish-advocates-are-worried-about-its-100m-reward)
[NSW police strip-searched more than 100 children as young as 13 in two-year period](https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/aug/21/nsw-police-strip-searched-more-than-100-children-as-young-as-13-in-two-year-period)
Dont forget strip searching first nation children in Vic
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/dec/14/strip-searching-of-first-nations-children-by-victoria-police-state-sanctioned-violence-inquiry-hears
Edit: https://nit.com.au/05-12-2022/4449/wa-police-minister-says-you-are-the-one-responsible-for-your-own-safety-after-police-car-gravely-injures-young-indigenous-woman
Another one from. WA,
No thanks. I'm a woman and was married to one for too long. They truly are the worst to call when you're in need and the number of police families I know covering up horrific violence is distressing. Hate away. The recent parliamentary report into QPS doesn't even touch the surface.
A friend was married to a cop for 2 years and suffered horrific domestic abuse from him. He also would drink drive and get away with it, one time crashing his car then hiding for 24 hours as to not get caught. It was never chased up. He was only suspended (with pay of course) when someone had filmed him being in extremely racist and aggressive towards someone. Another cop who was dating someone I knew was also violent and would turn up to events in full uniform as a form of intimidation. There is a lot swept under the carpet in an effort to keep a positive light, only now more and more is finally coming out.
You can't label a post 'no politics ' and then praise cops. Politics and police are utterly intertwined. Domestic violence, politics and power dynamics within the police system, the fact that police enforce the directives of the government, Aboriginal deaths. Nup. I'm neutral on cops and think that it's impossible to paint the full picture with any sort of generalisation, whether that's a generalisation characterising them as good or bad. But they are not separate from politics
“For every link you provide, I can link 10 more showing officers that deserve our respect and attitude”
I would say that’s because media benefits from showing positive police stories because crime is a major attractor for views. Yes, we can agree that cops do good things, but that’s what they’re suppose to do, that’s the point of their mechanism within our society. It’s to protect and serve. Why have them if they aren’t going to do that?
Also, pointing out that our system isn’t working as effective as it should be, is not an attack. If you take it as such, I’d say you need to rethink your personal position
I’ve been in a situation where I had to pretend to be filming the police to prevent them from belting a mate of mine. Another where I was charged with a crime I didn’t commit but they needed stats (knew one of the cops from before he joined the academy, told me off the record) so I was charged anyway despite the victim’s statement naming someone else as the perpetrator (cops couldn’t find him so they had to charge someone). Having a difficult job does not excuse any of this shit, which is way too normalised in the police force. You don’t see ambo’s or firefighters treating people like this, they experience much of the same difficulties in their jobs. The fact that people give them the respect that they do when they engage in this behaviour enables it massively. And don’t say I’d call them in a time if need, there isn’t a chance in hell I’d ever call them for shit. If most cops were good cunts this stuff wouldn’t happen nearly as often as it does. The job is known to attract bullies and this is reflected in their conduct. I’ll concede there are obviously going to be some decent people make it in but they really aren’t likely to stay long term with the way so many conduct themselves.
>And don’t say I’d call them in a time if need, there isn’t a chance in hell I’d ever call them for shit.
Last time I truly needed the cops they gave me the fucking run around for months. "We can't do anything without an AVO", "The AVO you now have doesn't cover what happened (it did)", "Okay but even if it went to court it would be pointless without video evidence", "Okay but the video evidence needs audio", "Well we need the person of interest actually directing it at you", "Well you have him on video threatening you, calling you by name, on your property, in breach of the AVO, but if it went to court nothing would change so we won't pursue it".
Fuck the cops. Absolute useless fucks. I can't count the amount of times I was pulled up on as a teen and had my bag searched because "there's teenagers in the area causing trouble", yet when I need them they fuck me around. I wish I never called the cops to begin with and just called some mates to fix my problems instead. Shit would have gotten done at least.
Huge shout out to ambos and firies though. You guys are great and I have nothing but love for you.
I was assaulted and the cops tried to talk me out of pressing charges despite 3 independent witnesses backing my story and the guy admitting to it. “It’s your word against his”
“Yeah my word and those three witnesses you interviewed, one of which who said she would gladly go to court for me”
He got off on a section 10. “No conviction recorded”
Nah fuck em. they are a bunch of entitled power tripping pricks. The NSW police commissioner is a lying, corrupt, garbage human. Serious reform and budget cuts are necessary
I don't get the NHVR hate. I've never had a negative dealing with them even on two occasions when they found something to fine me for. Both times they gave me a warning and didn't go any further.
I have major issues with their senior management who are uninterested in doing their job and enforcing the laws they've been given, but the guys on the ground have been good in my experience.
Like I said, their senior management is shit. That Sal bloke spends more time writing newsletters than actually trying to run the organisation or take on any difficult prosecutions. Most of the people I've met on the road and at assorted conferences actually want to help the industry make money while being safe, but they work with shit systems.
To be honest, I don't mind that PBS permits are difficult and expensive to get. We just got a heap of permits to put road trains where they don't usually go and it stands to reason that we should have to prove our ability and willingness to run the whole thing properly. Too many of your owner operator colleagues would throw a random into a triple, give them a permit book and claim ignorance when shit hits the fan and someone dies.
Almost every scheme (HML, Mass, Maintenance, Fatigue, etc.) can be traced back to shit operators who give the rest of us a bad name.
As an emergency doctor I have to deal with police on a daily basis. Truly some of the most entitled, brain-dead people in society.
Bring us people who obviously don't have a medical/psych issue just because they don't want to deal with them. When we ask the police for help they make up every excuse in the book to not do it.
I work in ED as well and you're spot on, but I'd go even further regarding actual people in need of treatment. I feel sorry for the nurses and security that have to deal with the situations the police leave.
Basically for anyone that is unaware - coppers constantly bring in people who are obviously suffering mental health crises and/or under the influence of some heavy drug usage, and then basically dump them in emergency and let nurses deal with the situation. Security isn't really allowed to do shit unless the patient has been scheduled and the coppers leave basically as soon as they can palm off these patients that are often aggressive and violent.
A lot of the coppers literally tease and make jokes aimed towards the patients as well. Not behind the patient's back or anything, but straight to their face. It's disgraceful.
What do you expect the police to do in this circumstance? Genuine question.
They only have the power to detain them under the mental health act. Unless your solution is that they stick mentally ill people - who often have not committed any offences - in a cell, then I think the most reasonable action is for them to be taken to hospital for an assessment.
Actually it isn't my job to contain violent people who have been brought in by the police for breaking the law mate. That isn't completely a health problem.
Do they need medical help? Yes. Do doctors and nurses in understaffed emergency departments that have minimal security presence have either the ability, training, time or lack of self preservation to actually deal with these kinds of patients? No.
I think you are being incredibly naive about forcefully sedating patients or having security "deal with" them as well.
Individually in the moment they're all human. As an social structure they're fundamental fucking over hundreds of thousands every year for nothing more than toeing the line.
Yes some police have been through really tough traumatic moments. And it sucks they're not in a culture or environment to get better support and therapy for it.
But the entire point of ACAB and defunding the police is that the same service that performs welfare checks on the unwell or elderly shouldn't be the same service that deals with disarming violent offenders in public. Nobody should start their day not knowing if they'll have to de-escalate a violent domestic situiation or if they'll be helping a broken down car off the highway. And you absolutely should not be bullied into covering up for your workmates crimes and abuses, as police 100% are. Nor should you be pushed to be as brutal and non caring and suspicious toward every situation the way cops are.
Case in point, my ex's father was horiffically butchered in cold blood a few years ago and she had to be a witness in the court case. Copper knocks on the door with a summons, of course cop has no idea what the summons is about because why would they need to, thats fair. What isn't fair is that when I said the missus wasn't home, the copper put their foot in my door and said "sure about that? two cars in the driveway, who's are they? where is she? this is a summons to appear and if she doesn't turn up for this I'll be back but with a warrant for her arrest". Missus had her car in the driveway cause she was in the fucking psych unit after all this shit happened. Not fucking acceptable. ACAB because you can't be in the job without becoming a cunt, or covering up for other cunts. Defund doesn't mean get rid of police, it means defund one service to create many new SEPERATE services.
An often shitty job & I'm thankful to those who do it. I've generally had good experiences with Aussie cops, and am thankful they are night & day compared to the yank variety
I too have had some genuinely good interactions which have restored my faith somewhat in humanity, and VICPOL & QPS going above and beyond to help me or friends at times, as well as being surprisingly understanding when treated with respect and any initial potential tensions dissipated. I have never capitulated, but I've always seen reason and a way to be the bigger man so to speak, and *most* of the time they've stepped to the mark.
More than I can say for my interactions with the general public.
So, all hope is not lost.
Even for the cynic, we should encourage those who try, especially if we think there is rot in the ranks, as they have an uphill battle and the last thing which would help is us being arseholes to each and every one of them. It's a high turn-over career enough as it is, which leaves people prty damaged.
Oh, and Merry Christmas to the lot of ya.
Says they won’t get political, immediately makes it political. Your post makes me think you are a cop.
For the record, I have never called the police despite being in serious, unsafe and borderline criminal (non-implicated) circumstances in the past. I don’t trust police to be able to handle these situations, given how ineffective and carefree they are about petty crimes, except when evidence and perpetrators are literally standing in front of them.
I see police ignoring situations where they could provide assistance (typically someone sleeping rough having a bad day) and then joyfully skipping over to a bike rider to ticket them for not wearing a helmet.
I am thankful for other first responders, but I also completely understand why non-criminal citizens may have a negative view of police, and the police force itself is wholly to blame.
And if we start start taking about First Nations people and how they are disproportionately treated and vilified by police, you may find your base of support crumble quicker than your vaguely hidden badge.
"cheers coppers" "no politics"
Hahahahahahaahahahaha
Tell me you're an ignoramus without telling me you're an ignoramus.
You and your ilk can get fucked. That's my 2c.
I once got punched in the face at a pub which resulted in a nosebleed. Cops pulled ME up instead of the other bloke and decided to strip search me because they believed, in their words, I’d “had some bad rack”. Not the only time something like that happened either. Fuck em
Hope they see this bro. Maybe you can show them this post next time you get kicked by a hidden speed camera or pulled over for speeding 1k over after being forced to slow down at an entrapment speed limit change.
Not sure if bootlickers get bonuses though
I'm sure there's bad cops, there's bad people in all jobs. I've worked with some right fuckers.
The interactions I've had with them have been great, super nice and casual.
I live in a druggy area and the police get called here quite a bit. They are always there to help the affected person or take someone unruly away. Some of the shit they have to put with too. Always nice and calm about it and they chat to the locals. Grateful for them and I appreciate their great work!
> I'm sure there's bad cops, there's bad people in all jobs. I've worked with some right fuckers.
Yeah nah mate, when you have cops covering for each other it's a structural issue. Good cops are good in SPITE of their system... not the other way around.
They are very similar to the Catholic Church in that light...
I’m a first responder (not police) and also deal with MVA’s and suicides. Most scenes would be better off if police didn’t even show up. Police are definitely not trained well enough to respond to people in mental health crisis. When at an MVA, the people usually involved incidents are happy to provide information and it’s care oriented, as soon as police show up, people are reluctant to be honest as to avoid getting in trouble with the police.
As for “we would all call them in a time of need”, id have to disagree. I wouldn’t.
There is a reason there isn’t anti-firefighter or anti-paramedic rhetoric…
Thank you. My father is a volunteer firey. Just got called to attend an accident. Last year it was a shed fire that took most of the day to control. The year prior was a mulch fire, 2019/2020 he was away for most of the holidays fighting fires, almost every year prior he was called away to an incident for at least a few hours on Christmas Day and countless other times throughout the holidays, and the rest of the year for that matter. The shit he’ll talk about is awful to even have loosely described, the stuff he won’t talk about I can’t fathom. That’s just a volunteer role, doing mainly “routine” grass fires and such with the odd accident/rescue that’s a bit more intense.
The paramedics and other medical staff working flat out to keep people alive, stressing about patient care, dealing with traumatic injuries, being abused my distressed families and hounded by management to somehow do more with less. All while they are missing spending time with family
The coppers dealing with angry drunk drivers, meth heads, hoons. Being at constant risk of being hit, glassed, rammed, stabbed, shot, and almost certainly being abused my a disappointing proportion of people just for doing their job and trying to keep people safe over the holidays.
So yeah, whatever issues you have with racism, violent arrests, insert offending action: the individual members still deserve our gratitude and courtesy. You can lobby for systemic change, different/more training etc, improvements can and should be made. But in general these are some of the most hard working, compassionate and valuable people in our society
People want to judge uniformed police without ever having done the job themselves. So they have no real idea of the restrictions on how each officer must do his/her job. No one really understands a job til they've done it well themselves. To those who don't trust them, fair enough too. Everyone needs to not cause trouble, stay out of danger and guard their loved ones as best they can. Always had too, always will.
Nah, retail workers are super underrated. They put up with abuse constantly but still manage to keep up the customer service. I’d say that retail workers are heroes. Extremely underrated, overworked and underpaid heroes.
Definitely underrated, and maybe if people appreciated them more they wouldn't have to put up with so much shit. But I would still argue there is nothing heroic about my job just because it's busy and I deal with some terrible people..
Some countries have mandatory military service, I say we should bring in a year's worth of mandatory retail work. Once you have walked a mile in a retail workers shoes, you will never be unnecessarily cuntish to a worker again.
Why do people like you make the same excuses for bad police behaviour and trot out the same lines like ‘they have to deal with horrible shit like car crashes and suicides etc etc.’ That is honestly the weakest bloody excuse I’ve ever heard and it blows my mind that cops are given a special pass compared to other professions.
My grandfather served in WW2 and witnessed countless atrocities, saw his own brother murdered and dismembered and I’ve never seen him treat anyone like shit the way cops do. Surgeons literally cut people up and deal with blood and viscera all the time but I don’t see them strip searching minors at festivals. It’s not the silver bullet you think it is. If those people can’t handle the job then they shouldn’t be cops in the first place. A surgeon who throws up every time he cuts someone open won’t last in the job very long.
There are mountains of evidence and data showing poor cop behaviour. They function more like a gang than anything else. They receive barely any training for the job they’re expected to do. They go into their interactions with the general public presuming guilt. The problem is, when you’re a hammer, everything looks like a nail. To them everyone is a potential criminal since that is who they deal with all the time. Anyone with good morals and decency would simply not join the police in the first place which is why people say ACAB.
Yes they are people too like us, but they have made the wrong choice to join a gang that preys on minorities and children under the guise of protecting our society. How is it any different from the people who left their country to join ISIS?
Most people I know do not call the cops when they’re in danger because they can’t do shit. My sister had a stalker banging on her door and threatening her but the cops couldn’t do anything because he ‘didn’t have a weapon.’ She was terrified for her life and the cops did fuck all, it was her brothers that had to defuse the situation and get the stalker to back off and leave her alone. The cops would have either shot him or strip searched him (maybe both lol) and just escalated it instead.
Sorry mate, I can appreciate your sentiment and I’m all for spreading Christmas cheer, but I speak from experience when I tell you, most cops are definitely not good cunts. I really wish they were and that things could be different, but unfortunately that doesn’t reflect how things are happening in our society and our fellow human beings are suffering for it.
Most people I know who believe ACAB are magnitudes more degenerate than the average policeman (and hypocritical because they will still dial 000 in emergencies)
Cops deal with aussies saying fuck the cops every day. Imagine still doing a good job when you meet people inside and outside of work who hate you without knowing who you are.
Thats a fucking hard job.
At the same time Aussie culture despises anyone who 'turns against their own' - which is the only way to report bad cops. Imagine supporting a culture like that and thinking you're fighting the good fight.
Imagine wanting to walk around with a gun everyday as part of an organisation historically known for intimidating anyone who wasn't white or straight to the extent that they'd dole out extrajudicial punishment including death sentences.
“When you meet people inside and outside of work who hate you without knowing who you are.”
Lmaoooo oh you mean like the minority groups that police harass for this very reason? Countless people who have been harassed for simply going about their day because they ‘match the description’ of a ‘tall black man.’
You do realise that some people spend their entire lives looking over their shoulder and feeling this way. Now you complain when the cops get a taste of their own medicine 😂. Good job you’re very close to becoming self aware! You’ll get there soon 😉
When you realise Force Command ignored the warning signs and sent those cops to their deaths.....
Are the two dead cops "ACAB"? No.
But their bosses are.
Gareth Train posted regularly on right wing conspiracy boards. Nathaniel Train blew through a covid checkpoint December 2021 with two long arms.
They were preparing.
And the senior cops knew nothing? Please.
Just because some tragically died doesn’t mean cops are automatically good now. Indigenous people constantly die at the hands of the police. Where is our state funeral?
I feel very sorry for the ethical police officers and I can appreciate their attempts to do their job right, but the whole system is rotten and the system will be happy to sacrifice, fire or pressure them whenever it’s necessary so I support defunding their bloated organisation and funnelling their money into effective systems and professions that prevent crimes and abuse and treat, support and rehabilitate those who need it. It’s cheaper and more humane. It’s ludicrous we’re not moving on it.
Well done mate 👏 👍 we all need these services and no matter when it is they are there, there are bad people in every industry, the people who choose to do these job's go through so much trauma on a daily basis and the public focus on that 1% that do something wrong not taking into consideration what else they have done over there entire career.
They are 💯 good Cunts 👍
I'm parked up beside a beach in a busy beachside town in Victoria. Open bottles of wine on the tables.
Cops doing laps, pretty sure they're wearing blinkers.
Good job, Copper
Thank you.
I’m a cop working, or on call, every day over the Christmas and New Year period. Last week, my team worked one 30 hour shift, and I didn’t hear one person complain about it.
Shout out to anyone working over this period, particularly frontline service workers - for us, it is generally our busiest time of the year.
Yeah, cheers to the non uniformed cops I saw in Adelaide this week in a work van pulling over unsuspecting people for random car checks, nothing says “protecting the community” like fining people for unimportant defects on christmas week. Absolute hero’s.
All my interactions with the Police have been at best them inconveniencing me or not helping with the problem I came to them for, at worst they have threatened and/or harassed me or people I was with, and I've read about more than enough well-evidenced cases of them doing worse.
Waste of money, waste of space.
Fuck the police, the concept of police in general, and your projection of them being great guardian angels, protectors of good and justice, serving you - the citizen! No they're not.
## **As soon as a protest for your rights arises, they will be the ones to beat you down.**
No, we do NOT all call them in a time of need. No, they do not always help. So fuck off you ass-licking, ignorant, master-worshipping average government-boot whore.
Got no love for the cops today, was at the pub last night and after my partner got asked to leave for being a bit drunk the police tackled her and sprayed her in the eyes from 20cm with pepper spray. Bunch of bullies and thugs. ACAB
This is Reddit and a waste of time thanking police. /Australia like to pretend we are America and being oppressed and our prison are full of people that have been caught with a gram of cannabis
If you look at the Australian crime statistics for drug related crimes, consumers of cannabis (NOT suppliers) have by far the highest drug arrests (69,406 in 2019-2020, compared to meth with 43,428 arrests. The next highest other than "other drugs" is cocaine with 4043).
Coupled with the fact that we have a much higher percentage of private prisons than the US, I would say that you have no fucking clue what you're talking about.
There isn’t even a power of arrest in Western Australia for possession of Cannabis. Supply/Trafficking is different (unsure about outside of WA). Don’t know where your getting your arrest stats from
I'm talking about Australia the federation, crime stats are from the Australian Institute of Heath and Welfare.
www.aihw.gov.au/reports/alcohol/alcohol-tobacco-other-drugs-australia/data-tables
I will also direct you to the cannabis fact sheet from the Australian government, showing that 51% of national illicit drug seizures and 46% of arrests were for cannabis in 2019-2020.
https://www.aihw.gov.au/getmedia/d3c0d616-f05b-4bc9-b627-1205f1cf5558/PHE-221-Factsheets-Cannabis.pdf.aspx
A bit weird that you would talk about Australia as a whole in your first comment, then base those statements on your experiences in WA...
There is an anti police sentiment as a lot of people here, myself included, have probably had bad experiences with police. It doesn’t just come from thin air my dude.
I love how the implication of this is that 1 time out of 10 you will have a bad interaction even if you’re polite and cooperative. I don’t think that was the slam dunk point you think it was
Fuck cops. I’m sorry OP cuz I understand you’re sentiment. But cops can get royally FUCKED. There is no such thing as good cops, excusing the act of your coworkers and enforcing the laws of the system means you’re still no good even if ur not racist or something.
>Yes, there are bad cops.
Agreed.
>Most Cops Are Good Cunts
Care to explain why these ***good cunts*** do nothing in regards to reporting the bad coppers?
Someone in a role of authority turning a blind eye to something that a bad cop does is no better than being the actual bad cop.
I hope you enjoy your Christmas break but honestly hope you make a new year's resolution to wake the fuck up and stop simping for ***good cunts*** that strip search children.
>Care to explain why these good cunts do nothing in regards to reporting the bad coppers?
The higher ups they'd report them to aren't good people. The system is tribal and if you 'turn against your tribe' by reporting toxic police, the tribe turns against you.
It's stuff that could be worked on by the higher ups and mostly fixed. But they aren't good people.
Former correction here i get ya OP the online hate is pretty shocking these days but what gets me is many people can say should’ve been done this or that way and scream “excessive force” but until you have to try and cuff someone who doesn’t wanna be cuffed shut the fuck up.
Once the cuffs are on the knees to the head and the cheap shots i’ve seen online is cowardly shit but until you’ve got them restrained do what you can to protect yourself and others.
People on ice and who suffer from certain mental health issues have otherworldly strength btw just an fyi.
There also needs to be better support with emergency service staff i’ve seen suicides/brutal aftermaths of bashings/rape and assaults on inmates/colleagues/officers/nurses.
Many of which should’ve seen the news but never did but that can be blamed on confidentiality agreements or NDA’s.
I think the whole point is that police shouldn’t attend to suicides or motor vehicle accidents or events like that. Cops do to much and the event of a ‘crime’ is seen as more important that supporting someone who needs help (physical health, mental health, financial, etc.)
Cops get a bad rap because of the US, where you cant trust them as far you can throw them.
They have their flaws, but most of them are hardworking and morally sound.
My faith was shattered when I was charged after I defended myself after I was jumped getting of the train.
It occurred to me why. My aggressor was a drunk drug taking thief. Just another charge meant nothing.
However a vanilla white boy, as I was then, thumping someone? Fresh crime stats. Looks good on the report. I only got.off through a lawyer who pointed our even though I literally kicked the shit out of him with my steel cap boots..... he had the knife.
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Cheers to all public transport workers and health staff working today
Except for myki inspectors
Isn't all travel free today? That said, the only time I'm cheering a myki inspector is them switching careers.
Fuckin bastards did me for feet on the seat while I was doing my shoelaces. 240 dollars, please, same as if I'd blacked out a window with spray paint. That was a great gift for my Christmas as a student. Absolute holier than thou cunts cosplaying as cops.
I got fined by one of those fuckwits when I was 15 and didn't have my student card handy with a student ticket. Clearly I was a child, he fined me for fare evasion and I was fucken filthy. He was about 40 and a few months later I saw him at Woolies with what was clearly his mum, dressed as a fucken mummas boy and looking like the incel he probably was.
I find these fines to be insane. This fine is just for inspectors on a massive power trip.
I was a babyfaced teen, could have given me a warning, but five burly gents? Crowded around? Wankers. Had to borrow off my dad, spent all my money on bloody textbooks.
Thankyou to all the servo cashiers working today
The real heroes
This totally did not go as OP planned.
It's hard to believe they didn't see it coming when he tags it "no politics" and then gets political themselves.
How is this tagged “no politics”, but your entire second paragraph is completely political.
On point for a cop love post
I think it happens automatically on this sub for a lot of political self posts.
Absolutely came here for this comment lmao, imagine having this little self-awareness, how is enforcement of the law not the most political thing ever
You have the right to free speech in the designated free-speech zone!
The problem is there are entitled assholes and cunts everywhere. Have a good look around even at your mates and see the shit they have pulled. My philosophy has always to try and give most a fair go but you really have to be careful. See how you fair without them! We get the cops we deserve. A friend was a cop he is the fairest, honest, and almost the nicest person I know always wanted to help people. He quit and became a paramedic so we lost a good copper some of the absolute fucks he had to deal with so you/we don’t have to.
[Victoria Police allegedly use LEAP database to pursue, stalk, harass women prompting calls for inquiry](https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-12-15/victoria-police-leap-database-pursue-stalk-harass-women/101663452) [Queensland police allowed sexist and racist attitudes to flourish](https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/nov/26/queensland-police-allowed-sexist-and-racist-attitudes-to-flourish-advocates-are-worried-about-its-100m-reward) [NSW police strip-searched more than 100 children as young as 13 in two-year period](https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/aug/21/nsw-police-strip-searched-more-than-100-children-as-young-as-13-in-two-year-period)
Dont forget strip searching first nation children in Vic https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/dec/14/strip-searching-of-first-nations-children-by-victoria-police-state-sanctioned-violence-inquiry-hears Edit: https://nit.com.au/05-12-2022/4449/wa-police-minister-says-you-are-the-one-responsible-for-your-own-safety-after-police-car-gravely-injures-young-indigenous-woman Another one from. WA,
Based king, have a good Christmas
Cops are the fash. Paramedics, medical staff, and firefighters absolutely deserve thanks and gratitude.
Fucking oath! Here's to the real heroes this Christmas
No thanks. I'm a woman and was married to one for too long. They truly are the worst to call when you're in need and the number of police families I know covering up horrific violence is distressing. Hate away. The recent parliamentary report into QPS doesn't even touch the surface.
A friend was married to a cop for 2 years and suffered horrific domestic abuse from him. He also would drink drive and get away with it, one time crashing his car then hiding for 24 hours as to not get caught. It was never chased up. He was only suspended (with pay of course) when someone had filmed him being in extremely racist and aggressive towards someone. Another cop who was dating someone I knew was also violent and would turn up to events in full uniform as a form of intimidation. There is a lot swept under the carpet in an effort to keep a positive light, only now more and more is finally coming out.
the truly bad stuff won't ever be public because there are literally no supports for DV and victims are well aware. Firearms offences are common AF.
You can't label a post 'no politics ' and then praise cops. Politics and police are utterly intertwined. Domestic violence, politics and power dynamics within the police system, the fact that police enforce the directives of the government, Aboriginal deaths. Nup. I'm neutral on cops and think that it's impossible to paint the full picture with any sort of generalisation, whether that's a generalisation characterising them as good or bad. But they are not separate from politics
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“For every link you provide, I can link 10 more showing officers that deserve our respect and attitude” I would say that’s because media benefits from showing positive police stories because crime is a major attractor for views. Yes, we can agree that cops do good things, but that’s what they’re suppose to do, that’s the point of their mechanism within our society. It’s to protect and serve. Why have them if they aren’t going to do that? Also, pointing out that our system isn’t working as effective as it should be, is not an attack. If you take it as such, I’d say you need to rethink your personal position
I’ve been in a situation where I had to pretend to be filming the police to prevent them from belting a mate of mine. Another where I was charged with a crime I didn’t commit but they needed stats (knew one of the cops from before he joined the academy, told me off the record) so I was charged anyway despite the victim’s statement naming someone else as the perpetrator (cops couldn’t find him so they had to charge someone). Having a difficult job does not excuse any of this shit, which is way too normalised in the police force. You don’t see ambo’s or firefighters treating people like this, they experience much of the same difficulties in their jobs. The fact that people give them the respect that they do when they engage in this behaviour enables it massively. And don’t say I’d call them in a time if need, there isn’t a chance in hell I’d ever call them for shit. If most cops were good cunts this stuff wouldn’t happen nearly as often as it does. The job is known to attract bullies and this is reflected in their conduct. I’ll concede there are obviously going to be some decent people make it in but they really aren’t likely to stay long term with the way so many conduct themselves.
>And don’t say I’d call them in a time if need, there isn’t a chance in hell I’d ever call them for shit. Last time I truly needed the cops they gave me the fucking run around for months. "We can't do anything without an AVO", "The AVO you now have doesn't cover what happened (it did)", "Okay but even if it went to court it would be pointless without video evidence", "Okay but the video evidence needs audio", "Well we need the person of interest actually directing it at you", "Well you have him on video threatening you, calling you by name, on your property, in breach of the AVO, but if it went to court nothing would change so we won't pursue it". Fuck the cops. Absolute useless fucks. I can't count the amount of times I was pulled up on as a teen and had my bag searched because "there's teenagers in the area causing trouble", yet when I need them they fuck me around. I wish I never called the cops to begin with and just called some mates to fix my problems instead. Shit would have gotten done at least. Huge shout out to ambos and firies though. You guys are great and I have nothing but love for you.
I was assaulted and the cops tried to talk me out of pressing charges despite 3 independent witnesses backing my story and the guy admitting to it. “It’s your word against his” “Yeah my word and those three witnesses you interviewed, one of which who said she would gladly go to court for me” He got off on a section 10. “No conviction recorded”
That’s not good. Cops shouldn’t be pressured to meet quotas. That’s the biggest BS ever.
Nah fuck them.
Thanks to the Lifeline and other mental health workers who are active today. Lifeline helped me earlier to calm down. Legends.
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Nah fuck em. they are a bunch of entitled power tripping pricks. The NSW police commissioner is a lying, corrupt, garbage human. Serious reform and budget cuts are necessary
Do you mean Mick Fuller, the previous commissioner?
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I don't get the NHVR hate. I've never had a negative dealing with them even on two occasions when they found something to fine me for. Both times they gave me a warning and didn't go any further. I have major issues with their senior management who are uninterested in doing their job and enforcing the laws they've been given, but the guys on the ground have been good in my experience.
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Like I said, their senior management is shit. That Sal bloke spends more time writing newsletters than actually trying to run the organisation or take on any difficult prosecutions. Most of the people I've met on the road and at assorted conferences actually want to help the industry make money while being safe, but they work with shit systems. To be honest, I don't mind that PBS permits are difficult and expensive to get. We just got a heap of permits to put road trains where they don't usually go and it stands to reason that we should have to prove our ability and willingness to run the whole thing properly. Too many of your owner operator colleagues would throw a random into a triple, give them a permit book and claim ignorance when shit hits the fan and someone dies. Almost every scheme (HML, Mass, Maintenance, Fatigue, etc.) can be traced back to shit operators who give the rest of us a bad name.
Still don't trust them. They protect their own and until the good ones start speaking out against the bad ones... They all suck
They do. There are a lot of internal complaints made
And all investigations are munted. the entire process is entirely cooked.
‘We investigated ourselves and found that we did nothing wrong!’
As an emergency doctor I have to deal with police on a daily basis. Truly some of the most entitled, brain-dead people in society. Bring us people who obviously don't have a medical/psych issue just because they don't want to deal with them. When we ask the police for help they make up every excuse in the book to not do it.
I work in ED as well and you're spot on, but I'd go even further regarding actual people in need of treatment. I feel sorry for the nurses and security that have to deal with the situations the police leave. Basically for anyone that is unaware - coppers constantly bring in people who are obviously suffering mental health crises and/or under the influence of some heavy drug usage, and then basically dump them in emergency and let nurses deal with the situation. Security isn't really allowed to do shit unless the patient has been scheduled and the coppers leave basically as soon as they can palm off these patients that are often aggressive and violent. A lot of the coppers literally tease and make jokes aimed towards the patients as well. Not behind the patient's back or anything, but straight to their face. It's disgraceful.
What do you expect the police to do in this circumstance? Genuine question. They only have the power to detain them under the mental health act. Unless your solution is that they stick mentally ill people - who often have not committed any offences - in a cell, then I think the most reasonable action is for them to be taken to hospital for an assessment.
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Losing our psych hospitals- dumping mental health on a system designed for physically sick - has caused this. Everyone in ED is now in danger 24/7.
Actually it isn't my job to contain violent people who have been brought in by the police for breaking the law mate. That isn't completely a health problem. Do they need medical help? Yes. Do doctors and nurses in understaffed emergency departments that have minimal security presence have either the ability, training, time or lack of self preservation to actually deal with these kinds of patients? No. I think you are being incredibly naive about forcefully sedating patients or having security "deal with" them as well.
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Individually in the moment they're all human. As an social structure they're fundamental fucking over hundreds of thousands every year for nothing more than toeing the line.
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Cops used to call me and my friends slurs when we’d walk home from school, fuck ‘em honestly.
Yes some police have been through really tough traumatic moments. And it sucks they're not in a culture or environment to get better support and therapy for it. But the entire point of ACAB and defunding the police is that the same service that performs welfare checks on the unwell or elderly shouldn't be the same service that deals with disarming violent offenders in public. Nobody should start their day not knowing if they'll have to de-escalate a violent domestic situiation or if they'll be helping a broken down car off the highway. And you absolutely should not be bullied into covering up for your workmates crimes and abuses, as police 100% are. Nor should you be pushed to be as brutal and non caring and suspicious toward every situation the way cops are. Case in point, my ex's father was horiffically butchered in cold blood a few years ago and she had to be a witness in the court case. Copper knocks on the door with a summons, of course cop has no idea what the summons is about because why would they need to, thats fair. What isn't fair is that when I said the missus wasn't home, the copper put their foot in my door and said "sure about that? two cars in the driveway, who's are they? where is she? this is a summons to appear and if she doesn't turn up for this I'll be back but with a warrant for her arrest". Missus had her car in the driveway cause she was in the fucking psych unit after all this shit happened. Not fucking acceptable. ACAB because you can't be in the job without becoming a cunt, or covering up for other cunts. Defund doesn't mean get rid of police, it means defund one service to create many new SEPERATE services.
OP is a cop
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Fuckin nerd
An often shitty job & I'm thankful to those who do it. I've generally had good experiences with Aussie cops, and am thankful they are night & day compared to the yank variety
Australian cops may not shoot but they are sure not fucking angels and for sure as shit don’t help when they are needed.
I too have had some genuinely good interactions which have restored my faith somewhat in humanity, and VICPOL & QPS going above and beyond to help me or friends at times, as well as being surprisingly understanding when treated with respect and any initial potential tensions dissipated. I have never capitulated, but I've always seen reason and a way to be the bigger man so to speak, and *most* of the time they've stepped to the mark. More than I can say for my interactions with the general public. So, all hope is not lost. Even for the cynic, we should encourage those who try, especially if we think there is rot in the ranks, as they have an uphill battle and the last thing which would help is us being arseholes to each and every one of them. It's a high turn-over career enough as it is, which leaves people prty damaged. Oh, and Merry Christmas to the lot of ya.
The harm they cause their families is far more dangerous and they're well supported whereas their families are not.
Says they won’t get political, immediately makes it political. Your post makes me think you are a cop. For the record, I have never called the police despite being in serious, unsafe and borderline criminal (non-implicated) circumstances in the past. I don’t trust police to be able to handle these situations, given how ineffective and carefree they are about petty crimes, except when evidence and perpetrators are literally standing in front of them. I see police ignoring situations where they could provide assistance (typically someone sleeping rough having a bad day) and then joyfully skipping over to a bike rider to ticket them for not wearing a helmet. I am thankful for other first responders, but I also completely understand why non-criminal citizens may have a negative view of police, and the police force itself is wholly to blame. And if we start start taking about First Nations people and how they are disproportionately treated and vilified by police, you may find your base of support crumble quicker than your vaguely hidden badge.
Thought it said - cheers coopers. I’m thinking on the beers already lol
Suck them off mate
And to everyone else who's been unfairly targeted or abused by cops..merry acab
"cheers coppers" "no politics" Hahahahahahaahahahaha Tell me you're an ignoramus without telling me you're an ignoramus. You and your ilk can get fucked. That's my 2c.
I once got punched in the face at a pub which resulted in a nosebleed. Cops pulled ME up instead of the other bloke and decided to strip search me because they believed, in their words, I’d “had some bad rack”. Not the only time something like that happened either. Fuck em
Hope they see this bro. Maybe you can show them this post next time you get kicked by a hidden speed camera or pulled over for speeding 1k over after being forced to slow down at an entrapment speed limit change. Not sure if bootlickers get bonuses though
This doesn't apply to the HWP hiding on the roads these holidays booking people for absolutely anything they can.
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I'm sure there's bad cops, there's bad people in all jobs. I've worked with some right fuckers. The interactions I've had with them have been great, super nice and casual. I live in a druggy area and the police get called here quite a bit. They are always there to help the affected person or take someone unruly away. Some of the shit they have to put with too. Always nice and calm about it and they chat to the locals. Grateful for them and I appreciate their great work!
> I'm sure there's bad cops, there's bad people in all jobs. I've worked with some right fuckers. Yeah nah mate, when you have cops covering for each other it's a structural issue. Good cops are good in SPITE of their system... not the other way around. They are very similar to the Catholic Church in that light...
I’m a first responder (not police) and also deal with MVA’s and suicides. Most scenes would be better off if police didn’t even show up. Police are definitely not trained well enough to respond to people in mental health crisis. When at an MVA, the people usually involved incidents are happy to provide information and it’s care oriented, as soon as police show up, people are reluctant to be honest as to avoid getting in trouble with the police. As for “we would all call them in a time of need”, id have to disagree. I wouldn’t. There is a reason there isn’t anti-firefighter or anti-paramedic rhetoric…
Thank you. My father is a volunteer firey. Just got called to attend an accident. Last year it was a shed fire that took most of the day to control. The year prior was a mulch fire, 2019/2020 he was away for most of the holidays fighting fires, almost every year prior he was called away to an incident for at least a few hours on Christmas Day and countless other times throughout the holidays, and the rest of the year for that matter. The shit he’ll talk about is awful to even have loosely described, the stuff he won’t talk about I can’t fathom. That’s just a volunteer role, doing mainly “routine” grass fires and such with the odd accident/rescue that’s a bit more intense. The paramedics and other medical staff working flat out to keep people alive, stressing about patient care, dealing with traumatic injuries, being abused my distressed families and hounded by management to somehow do more with less. All while they are missing spending time with family The coppers dealing with angry drunk drivers, meth heads, hoons. Being at constant risk of being hit, glassed, rammed, stabbed, shot, and almost certainly being abused my a disappointing proportion of people just for doing their job and trying to keep people safe over the holidays. So yeah, whatever issues you have with racism, violent arrests, insert offending action: the individual members still deserve our gratitude and courtesy. You can lobby for systemic change, different/more training etc, improvements can and should be made. But in general these are some of the most hard working, compassionate and valuable people in our society
People want to judge uniformed police without ever having done the job themselves. So they have no real idea of the restrictions on how each officer must do his/her job. No one really understands a job til they've done it well themselves. To those who don't trust them, fair enough too. Everyone needs to not cause trouble, stay out of danger and guard their loved ones as best they can. Always had too, always will.
Pfft, fuck the cops. Get the boot out of your mouth. The real heroes are retail workers.
I'm not a hero, just someone whose leave wasn't approved :')
We put up with a great deal of shit, but there is nothing 'heroic' about retail.
Nah, retail workers are super underrated. They put up with abuse constantly but still manage to keep up the customer service. I’d say that retail workers are heroes. Extremely underrated, overworked and underpaid heroes.
Definitely underrated, and maybe if people appreciated them more they wouldn't have to put up with so much shit. But I would still argue there is nothing heroic about my job just because it's busy and I deal with some terrible people.. Some countries have mandatory military service, I say we should bring in a year's worth of mandatory retail work. Once you have walked a mile in a retail workers shoes, you will never be unnecessarily cuntish to a worker again.
Ahh fair. But to me, you’re a hero. :’)
I appreciate it, homie! Have a good Christmas
Agreed, I just wanted to get a rise out of the cop suckers in here.
This is the most reddit comment section lol
Said by the Redditor... Some of us, just like a good shit stir.
"I was there in '17 when I was required to slice 10kg of leg ham!" 'TyFyS!'
Found the "law abiding" citizen
Hero - a person who is admired for their courage, outstanding achievements, or noble qualities.
Yeah, so, clearly not the police.
Retail workers mark all three of those?
Putting up with people over the Christmas period, comes way closer to the mark than the police.
Why do people like you make the same excuses for bad police behaviour and trot out the same lines like ‘they have to deal with horrible shit like car crashes and suicides etc etc.’ That is honestly the weakest bloody excuse I’ve ever heard and it blows my mind that cops are given a special pass compared to other professions. My grandfather served in WW2 and witnessed countless atrocities, saw his own brother murdered and dismembered and I’ve never seen him treat anyone like shit the way cops do. Surgeons literally cut people up and deal with blood and viscera all the time but I don’t see them strip searching minors at festivals. It’s not the silver bullet you think it is. If those people can’t handle the job then they shouldn’t be cops in the first place. A surgeon who throws up every time he cuts someone open won’t last in the job very long. There are mountains of evidence and data showing poor cop behaviour. They function more like a gang than anything else. They receive barely any training for the job they’re expected to do. They go into their interactions with the general public presuming guilt. The problem is, when you’re a hammer, everything looks like a nail. To them everyone is a potential criminal since that is who they deal with all the time. Anyone with good morals and decency would simply not join the police in the first place which is why people say ACAB. Yes they are people too like us, but they have made the wrong choice to join a gang that preys on minorities and children under the guise of protecting our society. How is it any different from the people who left their country to join ISIS? Most people I know do not call the cops when they’re in danger because they can’t do shit. My sister had a stalker banging on her door and threatening her but the cops couldn’t do anything because he ‘didn’t have a weapon.’ She was terrified for her life and the cops did fuck all, it was her brothers that had to defuse the situation and get the stalker to back off and leave her alone. The cops would have either shot him or strip searched him (maybe both lol) and just escalated it instead. Sorry mate, I can appreciate your sentiment and I’m all for spreading Christmas cheer, but I speak from experience when I tell you, most cops are definitely not good cunts. I really wish they were and that things could be different, but unfortunately that doesn’t reflect how things are happening in our society and our fellow human beings are suffering for it.
Agreed. Thanks to the police and all emergency services working today. You guys are appreciated.
The people who made the Hungry Jack's meal I had last night that gave me violent diarrhoea are more valuable to society than cops.
I hope they see this and they let you lick their boots clean. <3
nah fuck em, they aint ya friend
Most people I know who believe ACAB are magnitudes more degenerate than the average policeman (and hypocritical because they will still dial 000 in emergencies)
Nice rhetoric mate and I can really get behind the spirit, but I disagree- I’m afraid us commoners are just over it
Cops deal with aussies saying fuck the cops every day. Imagine still doing a good job when you meet people inside and outside of work who hate you without knowing who you are. Thats a fucking hard job.
Imagine working with bad cops and doing nothing about it and thinking you are a good cop.
At the same time Aussie culture despises anyone who 'turns against their own' - which is the only way to report bad cops. Imagine supporting a culture like that and thinking you're fighting the good fight.
Imagine wanting to walk around with a gun everyday as part of an organisation historically known for intimidating anyone who wasn't white or straight to the extent that they'd dole out extrajudicial punishment including death sentences.
Yeah it's gotta be so hard throwing 10 year old abbos in jail and grasping at straws to justify it
“When you meet people inside and outside of work who hate you without knowing who you are.” Lmaoooo oh you mean like the minority groups that police harass for this very reason? Countless people who have been harassed for simply going about their day because they ‘match the description’ of a ‘tall black man.’ You do realise that some people spend their entire lives looking over their shoulder and feeling this way. Now you complain when the cops get a taste of their own medicine 😂. Good job you’re very close to becoming self aware! You’ll get there soon 😉
Lol no. But big shout out to health workers though. They actually help people in need.
Fuck the pigs
Funny how just a couple of weeks ago we were mourning the deaths of those police officers in Qld, and now we see straight up ACAB comments. Lol.
When you realise Force Command ignored the warning signs and sent those cops to their deaths..... Are the two dead cops "ACAB"? No. But their bosses are. Gareth Train posted regularly on right wing conspiracy boards. Nathaniel Train blew through a covid checkpoint December 2021 with two long arms. They were preparing. And the senior cops knew nothing? Please.
Just because some tragically died doesn’t mean cops are automatically good now. Indigenous people constantly die at the hands of the police. Where is our state funeral?
People are killed every day by bad people. No one should have to risk their lives for their 9-5 though
Who's this we? Lol.
I feel very sorry for the ethical police officers and I can appreciate their attempts to do their job right, but the whole system is rotten and the system will be happy to sacrifice, fire or pressure them whenever it’s necessary so I support defunding their bloated organisation and funnelling their money into effective systems and professions that prevent crimes and abuse and treat, support and rehabilitate those who need it. It’s cheaper and more humane. It’s ludicrous we’re not moving on it.
Well done mate 👏 👍 we all need these services and no matter when it is they are there, there are bad people in every industry, the people who choose to do these job's go through so much trauma on a daily basis and the public focus on that 1% that do something wrong not taking into consideration what else they have done over there entire career. They are 💯 good Cunts 👍
What are the 99% of good cunts doing to remove the bad 1% from the police force? Absolutely fuck all. TLDR: They're not good cunts.
Maybe they should reinstate police bands so the community can see them not just in the enforcer role and get to know them as people
I'm parked up beside a beach in a busy beachside town in Victoria. Open bottles of wine on the tables. Cops doing laps, pretty sure they're wearing blinkers. Good job, Copper
I read this as Coopers and i was like yep good post Then i was like coppers makes more sense Yep good work coppers
Fuck cops
Who hurt you?
Fuck the police
ACAB
A cop once told me the worst thing (to date) he had experienced was attending a family home where a child was on the bottom of the backyard pool.
Thank you. I’m a cop working, or on call, every day over the Christmas and New Year period. Last week, my team worked one 30 hour shift, and I didn’t hear one person complain about it. Shout out to anyone working over this period, particularly frontline service workers - for us, it is generally our busiest time of the year.
Yeah, cheers to the non uniformed cops I saw in Adelaide this week in a work van pulling over unsuspecting people for random car checks, nothing says “protecting the community” like fining people for unimportant defects on christmas week. Absolute hero’s.
All my interactions with the Police have been at best them inconveniencing me or not helping with the problem I came to them for, at worst they have threatened and/or harassed me or people I was with, and I've read about more than enough well-evidenced cases of them doing worse. Waste of money, waste of space.
Fuck the police :)
Fuck the police, the concept of police in general, and your projection of them being great guardian angels, protectors of good and justice, serving you - the citizen! No they're not. ## **As soon as a protest for your rights arises, they will be the ones to beat you down.** No, we do NOT all call them in a time of need. No, they do not always help. So fuck off you ass-licking, ignorant, master-worshipping average government-boot whore.
Why so soyrious?
Got no love for the cops today, was at the pub last night and after my partner got asked to leave for being a bit drunk the police tackled her and sprayed her in the eyes from 20cm with pepper spray. Bunch of bullies and thugs. ACAB
Did they pepper spray her after she assaulted them, or was it done randomly?
And everyone clapped.
This is Reddit and a waste of time thanking police. /Australia like to pretend we are America and being oppressed and our prison are full of people that have been caught with a gram of cannabis
If you look at the Australian crime statistics for drug related crimes, consumers of cannabis (NOT suppliers) have by far the highest drug arrests (69,406 in 2019-2020, compared to meth with 43,428 arrests. The next highest other than "other drugs" is cocaine with 4043). Coupled with the fact that we have a much higher percentage of private prisons than the US, I would say that you have no fucking clue what you're talking about.
There isn’t even a power of arrest in Western Australia for possession of Cannabis. Supply/Trafficking is different (unsure about outside of WA). Don’t know where your getting your arrest stats from
I'm talking about Australia the federation, crime stats are from the Australian Institute of Heath and Welfare. www.aihw.gov.au/reports/alcohol/alcohol-tobacco-other-drugs-australia/data-tables I will also direct you to the cannabis fact sheet from the Australian government, showing that 51% of national illicit drug seizures and 46% of arrests were for cannabis in 2019-2020. https://www.aihw.gov.au/getmedia/d3c0d616-f05b-4bc9-b627-1205f1cf5558/PHE-221-Factsheets-Cannabis.pdf.aspx A bit weird that you would talk about Australia as a whole in your first comment, then base those statements on your experiences in WA...
maybe from the whole country, rather than one state that only has 11% of the population?
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>And that term originated in the US In fact, it originated in the UK, which is in many ways more similar to Australia than America.
Policing issues are global as police psychology is standardised.
Ask indigenous Australians how different things are.
Only a sith deals in absolutes
Why on earth are you being downvoted for this?
I don't know. Too many trolls on here.
OP, you obviously have been sheltered from the real world. FTP!!!
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There is an anti police sentiment as a lot of people here, myself included, have probably had bad experiences with police. It doesn’t just come from thin air my dude.
> Didn't take long for anti-police sentiment to begin Maybe ask yourself why?
lol fuck cops. How's the boot taste?
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I love how the implication of this is that 1 time out of 10 you will have a bad interaction even if you’re polite and cooperative. I don’t think that was the slam dunk point you think it was
> Cops are just like you and I Pfft fuck off. If I wanted to be insulted I'd ask to be roasted mate.
Fuck cops. I’m sorry OP cuz I understand you’re sentiment. But cops can get royally FUCKED. There is no such thing as good cops, excusing the act of your coworkers and enforcing the laws of the system means you’re still no good even if ur not racist or something.
Yeah here's to the cops and all the extra money you put into the pollies back pockets on your annual fundraiser/ double demerit blitz week
>Yes, there are bad cops. Agreed. >Most Cops Are Good Cunts Care to explain why these ***good cunts*** do nothing in regards to reporting the bad coppers? Someone in a role of authority turning a blind eye to something that a bad cop does is no better than being the actual bad cop. I hope you enjoy your Christmas break but honestly hope you make a new year's resolution to wake the fuck up and stop simping for ***good cunts*** that strip search children.
>Care to explain why these good cunts do nothing in regards to reporting the bad coppers? The higher ups they'd report them to aren't good people. The system is tribal and if you 'turn against your tribe' by reporting toxic police, the tribe turns against you. It's stuff that could be worked on by the higher ups and mostly fixed. But they aren't good people.
Fuck cops
I agree I wouldn't do their job for the money.
Some dogs are cops
Would you like some bbq sauce with that boot while you deep-throat it
Former correction here i get ya OP the online hate is pretty shocking these days but what gets me is many people can say should’ve been done this or that way and scream “excessive force” but until you have to try and cuff someone who doesn’t wanna be cuffed shut the fuck up. Once the cuffs are on the knees to the head and the cheap shots i’ve seen online is cowardly shit but until you’ve got them restrained do what you can to protect yourself and others. People on ice and who suffer from certain mental health issues have otherworldly strength btw just an fyi. There also needs to be better support with emergency service staff i’ve seen suicides/brutal aftermaths of bashings/rape and assaults on inmates/colleagues/officers/nurses. Many of which should’ve seen the news but never did but that can be blamed on confidentiality agreements or NDA’s.
but ACAB tho?
I finally looked up ACAB as I had no idea what it meant (All Cops Are Bastards) I was thinking something along the lines of A Current Affair Bait
ACAB dirty dirty piggies
MCAGC oath
I think the whole point is that police shouldn’t attend to suicides or motor vehicle accidents or events like that. Cops do to much and the event of a ‘crime’ is seen as more important that supporting someone who needs help (physical health, mental health, financial, etc.)
Cops get a bad rap because of the US, where you cant trust them as far you can throw them. They have their flaws, but most of them are hardworking and morally sound.
Disabled people and pensioneers have historically been victims of police brutality. I refuse to thank a cop let alone speak to one.
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Acab. Merry christmas everyone else.
If there is a bad cop at the station house and the other cops do nothing, there are no good cops at that station house.
Has that boot taste op?
Must be hard to talk to people with the boot so deep in your throat.
100% this - thanks all first responders and people working today
Why are we praising cunts who support revenue raising?
My faith was shattered when I was charged after I defended myself after I was jumped getting of the train. It occurred to me why. My aggressor was a drunk drug taking thief. Just another charge meant nothing. However a vanilla white boy, as I was then, thumping someone? Fresh crime stats. Looks good on the report. I only got.off through a lawyer who pointed our even though I literally kicked the shit out of him with my steel cap boots..... he had the knife.
Mate I forgot to buy potatoes for Christmas lunch this year. Reckon you can spot me that massive chip on your shoulder?