Reply to: Police 'illegally' stopping white people to racially balance stop-and-search figures

[up4it]

A black guy was complaining to me that the Police were racist and that black people always got stopped and searched.

I asked him if he had been stopped. He said once when in his car.

Well I said I once got stopped and searched 3 times in my car within one month! Legal every time! :-) This is true.

The guy asked me why I was stopped. I replied it was because I am White!

Even he couldn't stop himself from laughing!

[Menelaus]

Smart detective I reckon. If you arrested everyone with little piggy eyes you would get 90% of criminals off the streets without all that expensive trial malarkey.

Even better, they should profile families and have detectives waiting in maternity wards to whisk the little bastards off to jail before they can do any damage.

Minority Report, anyone?

[xoggoth]

Smart detective I reckon. If you arrested everyone with little piggy eyes you would get 90% of criminals off the streets without all that expensive trial malarkey.

Even better, they should profile families and have detectives waiting in maternity wards to whisk the little bastards off to jail before they can do any damage.

[Churchill]

I played squash against a detective a few years back and I will never forget the conversation where he stated that he could tell whether people were guilty just by looking at them.

Nowadays, I play regularly against a mate who is a firearms expert, who is slightly more human !!

A what? You do talk some sh!te.

What are his qualifications for being a "firearms expert"?

[GreenerGrass]

I was at Heathrow airport the other week and the security staff at the X ray machines were all Asian, the sight of them searching all the white grannies and grandads was ridiculous, taking their shoes and belts off and rooting through their handbags etc.
Meanwhile a dusky looking woman in a niqab strolled straight through without being searched carrying what looked like a massive bottle of propane gas.
It really is political correctness gone mad.

[Cyberman]

I played squash against a detective a few years back and I will never forget the conversation where he stated that he could tell whether people were guilty just by looking at them.

Nowadays, I play regularly against a mate who is a firearms expert, who is slightly more human !!

[JamieMoles]

PACE gives plod the right to detain you and take you to the station to confirm your identity. Why?

PACE also gives you the right to refer to a copy of it should you be arested. When they detain you the have to arrest you and read you your rights, respond with something like "I do not recognise the validity of those words and wish to exercise my right to refer to a copy of PACE - the Police and Criminal Evidence Act of 1984".

They can't move you until they have given you a copy to read - usually involving someone else from the station bringing the folder out to you.

[Lockhouse]

This is old news surely? I thought most people had been aware of this for a while.

[Peoplesoft bloke]

PACE gives plod the right to detain you and take you to the station to confirm your identity. Why?

Only if they have reason to suspect you aren't telling them the truth. If they did that to me it would be IPCC and lawyers at dawn. That will all change of course with ID cards - then it will be a demand to see your papers.

[Mich the Tester]

...I once came back from Northern Ireland in an old van at the height of the troubles. It was reasonable that I be given a grilling at the port but they were very rude and aggressive.

This is one reason why the police have such poor relations with many different groups of people. If the police were to explain politely why they feel they need to search you or question you, making it clear you're not under suspicion of anything, you might be quite happy to go along with their request. If however they approach you in a rude and aggressive fashion then you're going to come away with a pretty bad impression of the police; you tell a few of your mates, the story goes around and hey presto the police have made themselves a bit more unpopular than they already were.

This is really basic stuff; don't police officers get taught any basic social skills in their training?

[RichardCranium]

It might help if some police could differentiate between those likely to be involved in criminal/terrorist activities and those that are. I have seen the other side of this as I have an Irish name and I once came back from Northern Ireland in an old van at the height of the troubles. It was reasonable that I be given a grilling at the port but they were very rude and aggressive.

You are confusing the thick racist pigs that make up the Police with the ignorant racist pigs that they employ in Customs.

[xoggoth]

It might help if some police could differentiate between those likely to be involved in criminal/terrorist activities and those that are. I have seen the other side of this as I have an Irish name and I once came back from Northern Ireland in an old van at the height of the troubles. It was reasonable that I be given a grilling at the port but they were very rude and aggressive.

[Menelaus]

It's a chavesty.

Chavesty
When the bling is gone and you cant go on
Its chavesty
When the baby cries and you dont care why
Its hard to bear
With no-one to love you youre
Goin nowhere
Chavesty
When you lose your dole and you got no soul
Its chavesty
When the car tax cries and you dont know why
Its hard to bear
With no-one to love you youre
Goin nowhere

(with apologies to the Bee Gees)

[Mich the Tester]

PACE gives plod the right to detain you and take you to the station to confirm your identity. Why?

It’s to check whether you’re a black man. Once you can show an ID card proving you’re white they’ll let you go home.

[Menelaus]

PACE gives plod the right to detain you and take you to the station to confirm your identity. Why?