The police force attracts psychos.

I used to trust the police implicitly until a close relative became one. The stories I’ve heard about the abuse, lying, aggression from some members of the force is staggering. You’d think, with them having body worn cameras etc that would deter them but it’s surprising how often they “go offline” at opportune moments

When I was a teenager/early 20s the most vile/skin crawling sexual comments I received came from 2 male police officers leaning out of their car when they were meant to be monitoring the town for trouble. Because I was young I thought if I reported it nobody would listen.

I know 2 police officers who love the power trip of the job. One harassed their neighbour and when the neighbour said they would call the police, they replied that they were the police so there was nothing they could do about it!

So I know from experience that the police force attracts bad people.

I understand that there are more reports of domestic violence within armed forces and policing families.Scary.

Yes they do and some become teachers.

Depends really, I have police in my family and have always respected them. But now having been in close contact I really despair and the way the police are behaving at the moment. I now have no respect whatsoever for them.

In my (long) experience in teaching, school bullies become cops or join the army.

It’s almost like dealing with every bit of shite life throws at people changes you…it’s said that the average person deals what 4-5 properly traumatic experiences in their life, whilst for police officers it’s about 6000.

That being said, there are and have always been some proper c u next Tuesday police officers (I’ve been on the receiving end of it at work) but it’s just that fortunately it’s not as well hidden these days as people are more likely to speak up.

As others have said though, the vast majority of police officers go into the job to help people and try to make a difference.

What? Of course policing is different than teaching? The only business of policing is power/control. The uniform, the weopons, the physical violence involved. Its testerone city. Thats not even tackling the boys club culture, and thats putting it politely.
Lumping teaching and random other professions with policing, smells like your trying to downplay the very clear line of violent men in policing ratio.

Agree with this and genuinely think that it needs to be interrogated more in the interview stage. Almost like wanting to be a police officer should disqualify you - that’s a tongue in cheek comment but there have been so many cases of late where better vetting and testing during application would have stopped these people being recruited in the first place.

And I have 2 friends who are detectives and they are both brilliant human beings who would never do anything like this.

I couldn't agree more with what you have said. Have a few members of my family in the Police Force, Fire Service and Prison Service.
Having worked briefly within the NHS before I retired, it was a real eye opener as to the many mistakes made and the covering up of those mistakes.

And the ex policewoman there, posing for pouting selfies is as bad, when it comes to mobile phones in that particular profession if you ask me!
I think every profession has its psychos, just that it seems to be worse in the medical and police ones.
The police should have some sort of recording device that's on a live feed only, to a main server which can record. And not be allowed mobile phones with them at all. If they can stop retail staff having them on the shop floor, they can do it in any job where there is the likelihood of abuse.

This is so true. The other reason is that the police are very hot nowadays on investigating allegations & sacking people for misconduct. They are also bound to report them publicly whereas many other private & public organisations just move people in & sweep it under the carpet.

Have you ever heard of predators hiding in plain sight? Well, it applies to all positions of trust.

YABU to think the Daily Mail bears any resemblance to objective reporting and the truth.

Tons of posts on here slagging off both.

Like saying Johnson wasn't as bad as Trump. Low low bar

I don't know if we have the specific details but I watched a few documentaries about this case. Beautiful young lady 🙏.

The scary highlights in addition to that hideous creature were references to the WhatsApp group chats with a number of other officers. Horrible. There was a suggestion he knew the Police were about to turn up and question him at home I recall. So another officer would have tipped him off.

I can't remember if the flashing his disgusting penis at McDonald's incident was reported. Surely not, surely a police officer wouldn't be allowed to flash their little wiener and continue working? 😬

Yep I believe a scary proportion will be wronguns on varying scales. Most at the lowest level will have misogynistic views in some form imo.

Well said.

We all generalise and it's important to caveat I think. Which I don't always do.

I worked on a few Police projects with sex workers in London. I was a civilian employee. I'd say 8 out of the 10 police officers kind of scared me. I was only 25, very naive, yet I recall thinking and feeling that they were, well very much wronguns.

I've spent significant amounts of time in hospital, very sick and vulnerable ( dependant, bed bound, useless family so alone). That was my second awakening. The number of very scary individuals in healthcare I've experienced over the years has really turned my world upside down. To know so many people are out there. Compassion fatigue is one thing, others were something slightly further along. Nurses and doctors; something not right, from cruel, one was absolutely sociopathic and very scary. I'm what you would call a compliant, respectful and polite patient btw.

I recall one time where I loved the nurses. They were a group dedicated to supporting me. They were mostly Portuguese. They were just wonderful caring people, nearly all of them. I've met some great nurses and mostly HCAs were great, being worked to the brink. Less power so maybe that's why they've always been the nicest.

I would like to find a way to depart this world before I ever face a care home or anything near that. When you have direct experience of people with power, this problem is apparent. Not all, but a scary enough number. It's terrifying, believe it.