Are the British police more interested in soft easy targets like motorists than catching criminals?

Answer 1

if there is a chance of getting a beating or stopping a motorist, what would you take, it is a job

Answer 2

The police are interested in law breakers whether soft or easy targets. If a person chooses to break the law they should face the consequences without whinging. Most motorist break the law every time they drive and very rarely get caught. If someone thinks they have been hard done by because they have been prosecuted for a motoring offence, they should visit a hospital and see the consequences of some these offences. Some of the biggest criminals are behind the controls of motor vechicles.

Answer 3

Yes.
The police have to succeed in fulfilling government targets, and will top-up their results with easy targets.
More importantly, though, is the inbalance in policing. We are returning to the stop-and-search mentality against Islamic people, that was used against the Afro-Caribbean English communities in the 1970s & early 80s, resulting in the race-riots in Liverpool, Manchester, London & Birmingham. Over 1100 Islamic people have been taken into custody under the terrorism laws, and one has been imprisoned, and several have faced other charges, in just the last 12 months. In Manchester, where I live, a whole bunch of residents were taken from their homes, put on the street by armed police, and the whole Somali community incensed; the result was 1 man being charged with motoring offences!
Why is it that, whilst we are today told that Britain is the drugs capital of Europe, the police make small busts, and arrest people in working class areas, when anyone who has worked in 'the city' knows that millions of pounds of share-trading profits are spent on cocaine & heroin every year, yet these dealers (the drug rather than share) are untouched by the police, and this money goes straight to the drugbarons who flood the housing estates.
Why are Freemasons still exempt from prosecution; I myself gave testimony which led to 3 police officers being 'fired' for destroying evidence regarding a masons involvement in a crime.
Our police force needs cleaning up, and needs to be seperate from media and political control.

For the advantage of your respondent who wanted to see your clean-up rate, that would be 3xinfinity for me, and I don't take an annual wage and pension after 20 years.

Answer 4

A criminal is anyone who breaks the law. Someone who sells heroine to a 10-year old is a criminal. Someone who does 45 miles per hour on a 30mph stretch of road is a criminal.
Be careful how you phrase your question. More people die every day from traffic accidents than die in a year from drugs related crimes, or even gun/knife/weapon related incidents. Traffic police have a very hard job, having to deal with angry, irrate, self-important drivers who believe they are always in the right.
If you break the law, you deserve to be given a ticket/fine/penalty. I was caught twice for speeding, and once for not wearing a seatbelt. All three times I took the fixed penalty notice and £30 fine with good grace, because I knew i was in the wrong.

As for you originaly question, no, the police are no MORE interested in easy targets. The thing to remember is that there are special divisions within the police force who's job it is to catch hard criminals, such as drug dealers and illegal immigrant traffikers. But the regular policeman on the street has a job description to make the every-day city a safer place. So if he does that by educating a speeding motorist, more respect is due to him!
Leave the 'hard' criminals to the better trained, better equiped detectives in the special divisions.
Hope this answers your question,
Liam

Answer 5

Motorists are no longer plenty an "uncomplicated purpose" however the offences are extra surely "got here upon committing". i'm afraid you're incorrect in terms of the shoplifters... newly-caught shoplifters surely get a similar on the spot nice of £eighty, this is extra effective than any parking cost ticket offence (at present £30 non-endorsable, or £60 and 3 factors). As with the two offences, if the criminal is pronounced and it is going to court docket, the consequences are drastically bigger. in my view, i admire coping with site visitors offenders, however the ordinary public of non-street policing officers hate site visitors regulation.

Answer 6

All cops are. Not just the British cops. Here in the States, the same thing. The road I leave my house from is a rural road. No houses, just trees, deer, fox, racoons, rabbits, squirrels: you get the idea. The speed limit is 40 miles per hour. So the cops hide like predators and swoop down on unsuspecting moms driving their kids to school. When the Columbine massacre took place, the cops were outside, too scared to enter the building where the two boys were killing students while they cowered. Ex-wives and ex-girlfriends have called the police asking protection from violent ex's. The police say that unless the ex maims or kills them there is no crime and nothing they can do. One policeman, put on the spot, brutally and honestly told the truth: He said that policemen were not here to protect the public. That was not their job. So Britain, U.S., whatever, they are all the same. One apology to cops who are actually good ones. Rare, though. .

Answer 7

What with the countless number of speed camera's, radar guns, mobile camera's, and unmarked police cars, of course motorists aren't easy targets and revenue generators for the police force!!!!!!!! That would be criminal.

Answer 8

Yeah....probably, but there again the fact that not much happens to street criminals once caught can only demoralise the police, (not pigs as some prick said).....also as a slight side issue if we could be police for a week we would realise what sort of unpleasant characters are on Britains streets today....some well anti-social types.....!

Answer 9

Well if they dont deal with vehicle crime an your hit by a driver who has no licence, insurance an un road worthy vehicle what you going to do.

There was a London news programme the other night showing the amount of vehicles stopped and seized by police so far because the drivers either had no licences or no insurance or both...

Around 1800 in 1 week in Hackney (says it all really)

Answer 10

You don't seem to understand that motorists who break the law are criminals. Therefore, they are doing their job, which is catching criminals, from whichever walk of life they come.