I just wanted the opinion of a good bunch of guys with no doubt a broad range of experience of life.
Last Saturday night an illegal rave (illegal in the eyes of the law) took place in my city. An empty warehouse on a occupied trading estate was broken into and a large number of people turned up to dance etc. The police were called and decided to break up the rave as:
1. They had to as it was breaking the law (ok, didn’t have to, but you can’t really allow them to get away with it again)
2. They were concerned for the safety as two large generators had been running in an unventilated room for many hours and there was a health/safety/fire issue
So the police enter the building to be met by a mixture of ‘sorry old chap, I will leave now’ through to ‘have some of this copper, I will barricade myself in and start problems’
The police on meeting this violence and disorder resort to CS spray and batons to break up the rave and prevent harm to themselves.
Our local newspaper has an active forum and this incident has met with 99.9% hatred towards the local police. One or two people claiming to have been at the rave, doing nothing wrong of course, have said there was no struggle or violence shown by the ravers and only aggression by the police. Some of the postings have been very negative towards the police.
There are lots and lots of things that can go into the melting pot in a scenario like this, but does everyone stop sending their kids to school because a few teachers have been convicted of bad things, or do we stop going to any health practice because a surgeon messed up?
What are peoples honest opinions of the police in the UK (or Europe as well).
Cheers guys.
Steve - 2002 1.4SE petrol, Silver, black/black interior, Then an identical replacement 2003 A2. Now a Toyota Corolla 1.6 T-Spirit
Last Saturday night an illegal rave (illegal in the eyes of the law) took place in my city. An empty warehouse on a occupied trading estate was broken into and a large number of people turned up to dance etc. The police were called and decided to break up the rave as:
1. They had to as it was breaking the law (ok, didn’t have to, but you can’t really allow them to get away with it again)
2. They were concerned for the safety as two large generators had been running in an unventilated room for many hours and there was a health/safety/fire issue
So the police enter the building to be met by a mixture of ‘sorry old chap, I will leave now’ through to ‘have some of this copper, I will barricade myself in and start problems’
The police on meeting this violence and disorder resort to CS spray and batons to break up the rave and prevent harm to themselves.
Our local newspaper has an active forum and this incident has met with 99.9% hatred towards the local police. One or two people claiming to have been at the rave, doing nothing wrong of course, have said there was no struggle or violence shown by the ravers and only aggression by the police. Some of the postings have been very negative towards the police.
There are lots and lots of things that can go into the melting pot in a scenario like this, but does everyone stop sending their kids to school because a few teachers have been convicted of bad things, or do we stop going to any health practice because a surgeon messed up?
What are peoples honest opinions of the police in the UK (or Europe as well).
Cheers guys.
Steve - 2002 1.4SE petrol, Silver, black/black interior, Then an identical replacement 2003 A2. Now a Toyota Corolla 1.6 T-Spirit