UK Police Overreach
The cluster discusses criticisms of UK police practices, including overzealous surveillance, arrests for offensive speech or social media posts, disdain for crime victims, and neglect of serious crimes in favor of minor offenses.
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Yes. Some senior police officers here in the UK realise this:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-24320717
This is how the police operates in the UK too.
This is almost certainly a UK specific experience. The police here have a track record of treating people who report crimes with disdain.
It's not highly restricted. It's a bit more restricted than in the USA and there are plenty of brits that think that's dumb, meaningless and just creates drama whilst simultaneously distracting the police from solving actual crimes.
> Because your comments are bad faith.No, they are not. I thought you were done? Why are you still replying just to insult?I'm sorry my view offends you, but unlike you I'm not trying to offend you, it's my honest view and I thin the evidence supports it.If you think I'm an idiot, fine, but could you maybe just stop replying at this point instead of violating HN guidelines just to let me know? I'm down to have a civil discussion, but that clearly isn&#
The person in question did not say the latter. You have, presumably deliberately, decontextualized it. She said roughly what you said followed by "for all I care", and she also deleted the post a few minutes after.(What some people may not understand: UK police are running a dragnet online now, it is unclear when this started but was in full force after Covid, you can post and immediately delete, you can post with five followers...they will find it, and will attempt to prosecute. Pe
This was in the UK. They don't have Miranda warnings or protection against self-incrimination.
I can just google "london police harassment" and see plenty of evidence the UK has issues with policing.
It never ceases to amaze me how comfortable people here in the UK are with state-funded busy-bodies filming and monitoring them 24/7.It's gotten so bad that if I were to write some offensive rap lyrics here I could be visited by the police to "check my thinking", or worse I could prosecuted. This applies regardless of whether I've actually offended anyone, if the state feel what I said could hypothetical be considered offensive then it's illegal. Similarly, if yo
British cops do that quite regularly.