How can you trust a police force that catagorises a snowball fight as a serious violent crime?

[AgentZigzag]

A catagorisation usually reserved for murder, rape and GBH.

Give them their due, Manchester police did admit that they had mistakenly logged the six snowballing incidents as serious violent crimes, but they must have know at the time they logged them they were just snowball fights.

The Chief Constable of Manchester said the officers were 'confused by government regulations and caught up in bureaucracy'...no shit Sherlock

Is that the standard of some police officers these days? Or were they just genuine mistakes? (six 'genuine' mistakes? possibly not) Or a blatent massaging of government targets?

I'm not sure I like any of those choices, unless I'm missing something?

TBH, I no longer trust the police force to do a competent job. I used to but not any more - in my recent experience they are a bunch of incompetent twats. (although I accept that this is not necessarily true across the entire country!)

they should take is seriously when part of harrasmenet(we had to call the police out during the snow as our windows were nearly broken. I kid you not) but it isn't as seroius as the above mentioned crimes.

so a clerical/administrative mistake is made and then rectified and this is somehow indicative of a police force that is untrustworthy?

Mayor, I don't believe these were clerical/administrative mistakes at all. A typo could be described as that, or filling in the wrong form, but such a blatent miscategorisation of what couldn't even be considered a crime just shows the way some officers think. If they do this with snowballing, what else do they mistakenly do?

My recent experience is that they are not untrustworthy, more a bunch of incompetent fools.

Well if they think climbing a tree is on par to smashing someones window I kid you not they are a laughing stock and my kid was 9 at the time they wanted to arrest him for climbing said tree.

Six mistakes my arse.