Why do so many people hate the police?

Question

They are the first people you phone if there is trouble for help so why are people so against them

Answer 1

Generally it's the people that get involved with incidents that "hate" the police or they have been arrested!

Answer 2

I grew up in a place where the police have enough real criminals to deal with that they leave the average citizens alone and so we all love the police. But I moved to a small town and realized that in those communities the police don't have enough real criminals to catch and so they enforce any stupid law on the books, and really are hard asses about it. Like they will arrest a kid for having a fake ID and buying alcohol... instead of just taking the ID away. Or they will pull you over for not stopping fully at a stoplight and rolling through it a little... nit-picky things that don't make you a bad citizen, but because there is a law, and you technically sort of broke it, then you're going to get the full punishment. In areas where the police behave this way, many people can find them more of a nuisance than a protective force. It doesn't protect you to be arrested for going 2 miles over the speed limit. Sometimes, the police need to relax and put things in perspective.

Answer 3

Because people all think that the law should only apply to everyone else and that the police, as representatives of the law, remind them that they are not allowed to do what they want all the time.

I have a friend in the London police - he has got some pretty bad insults over the last few months, and he had arrested some very violent people and once had to spend 16 hours with a rotting corpse until it could be cleared away... I have great appreciation for the work of the police.

Answer 4

The police actually scare me to death. I was pulled over on the freeway and surrounded by 17 police cars. All had weapons drawn and were in firing positions. I exited my vehicle as instructed. At that point I was surrounded by them, dragged to the side of road by my arm. had a knee placed in the middle of my back, my head was held down face first in the dirt and I was handcuffed. When I was asked what was going on I was just told to shutup or I would be tazed. Iwas jailed for 72 hours without being charged with anything. My car was empounded @ $173.00 per day. I was never enterogated or told anything whatsoever about why I was arrested. I go to court and finally find out that I am accussed of being an armed robber for a crime that was committed some 350 miles away. It was said that my car fit the description of the vehicle used in the robbery. When the judge asked what proof existed the DA had a security tape of the robbery. The tape clearly showed a completely different person. I am black and the robber was white wearing a black ski mask and black gloves. The car was the same but mine is white and the one in the tape was light green. The judge apologized to me for my incarceration and I was released. Now that I have filed a lawsuit I am getting harrased. Just the other night I was parked on the opposite side of the street pointed in the wrong direction. A practice that I and many others have done for years. I had nine tickets on my car for illegal parking. I get stopped an average of 4 to 5 times a week for what are always called routine stops that they check me for warrants, sobriety, and searched myself and my car on several ocassions. This is why I personally hate the police. Unfortunately, it even scares me more to have to call them in the event that I may need their assistance with anything.

Answer 5

The police are supposed to enforce the laws. Some people break the laws, some people don't like being bossed about. Some police are on a power trip.

Sometimes the police do wrong things, and there is nothing you can do. They shoot people lie about it and nothing happens. They have been known to fit people up.

They have power, and that makes people nervous.

You usually have contact with the police when something bad has happened, this bad feeling comes back when you see them.

All these things make people feel uncomfortable with the police, though I think they rarely actually hate them, in general.

Answer 6

I don't hate them but I do feel let down by them. I live on a housing estate over-run with yobs and there is often trouble yet when you call the police they never bother to do anything. The standard response is "We have no officers available -we'll come as soon as we can". Two weeks ago I called them over a fight that was happening outside my home - dialled 999- they did not turn up. Simply called to get a witness statement over the phone 9 hours later. Luckily the fight was broken up before anyone was seriously hurt but the fact remains that the police are simply fed up with having to come out to these kind of things daily so don't bother anymore and it's us mums with kids who are afraid to leave the house that suffer. Something needs to be done - now!

Answer 7

I live in New Zealand, and our police department over here are great, but there are good policeman and then there are the other sort, smart and not very helpful. I think that if you have had bad dealings with the police, then you get put of by them, and see all police as the same. I have had to ring them, as had a prowler, and they were great, yet had a T.V> pinched and they were not very helpful at all, so really its seems, its what you need them for and who you get at the police station that makes a difference.

Answer 8

I think people base their opinions on how they've been treated by the police in the past.
I've never been arrested but have been victim of a crime a few times, and they've not been remotely interested or resolved anything despite witnesses seeing the events, in fact the police didn't even bother asking the witnesses, they just dropped the case due to lack of evidence.
That said, i still don't hate them, they have a tough job to do.

Answer 9

First of all, to Bondyzzzz, driving whilst using your mobile is a STUPID thing to do and can and HAS caused accidents. So I for one am happy for them to stop people who are doing that.

I think the police are hated generally unfairly, because of a few bad apples and how political correctness and government bureaucracy has largely stopped police from enforcing the law the way they used to.

Criminals naturally hate the police because the police stop them and put them in prison- no one is going to like that.

Answer 10

Well let's see here....from personal experiance with the county police around here they claimed I swerved once (yes, they said once) and pulled me over (take note I was wearing a micro mini skirt and a low top b/c it was about 12:15am) and thought I was drunk or on something b/c they claimed I was, so they did a stupid human tricks test (the DUI walk the line the point to your nose stuff) and they made me sit on the hood of his car right where the headlight was on high beams and made me close my eyes. Take note for a grl who is 19 and just heading home it's not fun. They had one police car, one undercover car, and one undercover SUV....a little extreme don't you think??? I wasn't going anywhere and it's not like I could have ran away in flip flops. Also they denied me my right to a breathalizer after I asked them repeatedly for one. So yeah that's why I hate cops.

Answer 11

Because they have the authority to arrest you if you do wrong.Also yobs etc: don't have the intelligence to become a policeman. They are just normal people doing a job and I know that for a Fact,so you people who don't like them tough, but I bet if you were being burgled or attacked you would shout call the Police.