I do enjoy watching these type of videos on youtube and this video I came across recently I found a little disturbing. Effectively two cops turn up at this guys house (guy holding the camera) with no warrant or paperwork of any kind, - ''we're clearly police mate'' barge him out the way and snoop around looking for a suspect.
Now I realise policing is hard work but forceful entry of this kind alarms me. It seems to happen all the time though on the streets, there are plenty of times where police without any real probable cause stop the public to search them against their consent. Most of us have come to accept that we are given a privilege to travel and that it is not a right due to being sold on the fact we should fear those we don't know and trust only those in authority for our own safety. Undercover of this has been passed legislation which allows a person to be subjected to, at any time, forceable stop and search, or stop and account as they are now calling it, it seems whether travelling in a vehicle, on foot or standing at ones own doorstep this is a very real possibility. I make no judgements in stating this, just to state it as it is without prejudice attached.
I realise it's a difficult subject and a subject which has a tendancy to polarise opinions, but I do fear that British policing is becoming like american style policing where due process has really gone out of the window, even by the admission of the BBC who broadcast this quite shocking documentary last night.
In relation to this documentary I'm not convinced it's necessarily a race issue more than it is a class issue/class war. There are many people that get brutalised at the hands of the police if liveleak/youtube is anything to go by, and although many are black, many are also white and hispanic, and of every race. It appears if you are poor in the US you are more likely to be a target of police brutality than if you are wealthy, and the same appears to be true to a lesser or greater extent across the globe. If you are black AND poor, it appears you run the highest risk of being murdered or imprisoned by police.
Many will argue that the police have to catch criminals and if it means stepping on the wrong side of legislation/law occasionally to justify catching a criminal or a mass murderer then so be it. However, it appears that modern (westernised) policing is moving in a much more sinister direction, that of brutality/murder/ alleged arrest targets which are designed to beat down the poor and kill them or imprison them to make money off of the slave labour they are subjected to there.
It is worrying that despite everything we were sold over the last twenty years about horrific acts of violence and human rights violations carried out at the hands of brutal dictators in other countries, we seem to have a similar type of thing going on right in our backyards everyday. Fortunately the UK is nothing as extreme as the US, but which direction are things headed ? The attempt by high ranking police officials in this country to arm every single bobby on the beat with some kind of pistol or automatic weapon I find especially terrifying and it's something we should (in my view) put energy into opposing.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p040v890/nypd-biggest-gang-in-new-york
p.s. if you don't pay for a tv licence like me you can find a stream elsewhere rather than use BBC iplayer which as per changes in legislation now requires a tv licence
Now I realise policing is hard work but forceful entry of this kind alarms me. It seems to happen all the time though on the streets, there are plenty of times where police without any real probable cause stop the public to search them against their consent. Most of us have come to accept that we are given a privilege to travel and that it is not a right due to being sold on the fact we should fear those we don't know and trust only those in authority for our own safety. Undercover of this has been passed legislation which allows a person to be subjected to, at any time, forceable stop and search, or stop and account as they are now calling it, it seems whether travelling in a vehicle, on foot or standing at ones own doorstep this is a very real possibility. I make no judgements in stating this, just to state it as it is without prejudice attached.
I realise it's a difficult subject and a subject which has a tendancy to polarise opinions, but I do fear that British policing is becoming like american style policing where due process has really gone out of the window, even by the admission of the BBC who broadcast this quite shocking documentary last night.
In relation to this documentary I'm not convinced it's necessarily a race issue more than it is a class issue/class war. There are many people that get brutalised at the hands of the police if liveleak/youtube is anything to go by, and although many are black, many are also white and hispanic, and of every race. It appears if you are poor in the US you are more likely to be a target of police brutality than if you are wealthy, and the same appears to be true to a lesser or greater extent across the globe. If you are black AND poor, it appears you run the highest risk of being murdered or imprisoned by police.
Many will argue that the police have to catch criminals and if it means stepping on the wrong side of legislation/law occasionally to justify catching a criminal or a mass murderer then so be it. However, it appears that modern (westernised) policing is moving in a much more sinister direction, that of brutality/murder/ alleged arrest targets which are designed to beat down the poor and kill them or imprison them to make money off of the slave labour they are subjected to there.
It is worrying that despite everything we were sold over the last twenty years about horrific acts of violence and human rights violations carried out at the hands of brutal dictators in other countries, we seem to have a similar type of thing going on right in our backyards everyday. Fortunately the UK is nothing as extreme as the US, but which direction are things headed ? The attempt by high ranking police officials in this country to arm every single bobby on the beat with some kind of pistol or automatic weapon I find especially terrifying and it's something we should (in my view) put energy into opposing.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p040v890/nypd-biggest-gang-in-new-york
p.s. if you don't pay for a tv licence like me you can find a stream elsewhere rather than use BBC iplayer which as per changes in legislation now requires a tv licence
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