Originally Posted by julianx
A bit less than a hundred years ago when I was a lad, a couple of coppers could get drunk, pick up some young lad cos they didn't like the way he was dressed, strip search him, beat the crap out of him, threaten to "get it on with his girlfriend" without the fear of a police harrassment charge, and make him resent the police so much he considered a life in crime. But then I grew up under the Bjelkie Peterson.
Just giving the other side of the story.
We need to be very careful about giving police too much power