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Ian Wray's avatar

I think taking the police to court for misconduct in public office is well worth a try - although it would probably need crowd-funding and organisation to do it. However I have low confidence in the court system these days, which can be used to bring verdicts based upon politics, and which also prosecutes and punishes innocent people (as the Lucy Letby case increasingly appears to exemplify).

If such a case is brought against the police then I think it should include the policemen making the arrest. My understanding is that they can refuse to do things they consider to be misconduct. This might actually empower the rank and file policemen to stand up to their politicised bosses.

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JD Rock's avatar

Incidents like this make the police look terrible due to the overreach in the case itself and against their now common failure to act over harmful crimes like theft.

MSM silence on a subject perhaps used to give some cover, by preventing public discussion and analysis of a record of behaviour if not stopping general suspicion.

Now, however, social media allows us to track patterns of conduct by the police, so there is little doubt about what is going on. The incredible thing is those in authority can't possibly be unaware that the public sees all this playing out now, yet still it goes on like a slow motion car crash.

What can be done?

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