Can you see how from another person's point of view it sort of looks like it might be you? Desperate to join the police, same username.
I find the way you communicate on MN strange. If I was police officer I'd want to make the process of policing more transparent to the users of Mumsnet. The police get a lot of stick, some of it justified but definitely not all, but it must be a very difficult job. The very context of being a police officer must mean coming into contact with some very unpleasant people, lots of conflict, even the chance of physical violence on a daily basis. The powers of arrest of the police are there because of the job. The legal use of violence can be necessary in some cases to do the job. I can only imagine how tough and stressful a job it can be when things could kick off at the most unexpected of times.
Given how hard the job is, if I was a police officer I'd want people to know that despite the sensational stories in the press we're not all bad. To do that I'd try and explain the process, open it up a little so people can see how it works, and why it's necessary. Obviously I couldn't discuss live cases, but I could explain how things work generically, the challenges the police face, and how the police try to be fair to everyone under difficult circumstances.
But with you I get this wierd feeling when I read your posts. They always seem to revolve around arguing. I'm not sure what word to use but your motive/ethos always seems to be to go against the grain/GC women. Just one example the thread talking about KJK being asked by the police to attend a police voluntary interview, you were arguing why she should attend and talk to the police. The reality is any legal professional would always advise their client not to attend ( Dennis Noel Kavanaugh entered that thread and did ). It literally can only go badly for the person attending the interview. A police officer would know that.
It also seems you always take the anti GC side in any thread involving any GC person and the police. It sort of like you want to argue with GC posters on this board but never just do so directly, always using the police as a proxy to argue through. I'm curious if a TRA who comitted violence against a GC person and was recorded on camera was invited to a voluntary police interview if your advice to attend would be the same? "Sure how else are the police going to get your side of the story". CF facing a lengthy protracted drawn out investigation over several years, yep that's police in action. Nowhere do you ever address things like proportionality in police investigations. A man makes dozens of complaints about someone he doesn't like on twitter with a clear political motive driving his complaints, serious investigation time. At some point a rational human would just ignore them as nuisance callers. But you say the police have to investigate every one when in some areas zero burglaries get investigated.
If what you say about the police is true, then we live in such a dystopian society with such a shit police force that the whole lot should be sacked, and a new police force built from the ground up. I don't accept that the police are that bad. I agree there needs to be some serious reforms, but I can't accept that you represent the police as a whole, and I don't think that you do.
I've just figured something out while writing this. Where I was saying above I'd try to be open about what it's like to be a police officer, one of the things I'd do is explain how the rules I had to operate under sometimes forced me to deal with things in a way I didn't like, but I had no choice. I have to follow the rules. From you I don't ever get that at all, the rules always seem to be your friend, the rules and procedures always seem to support your argument. It feels like you like the rules.