If not, do you know of anyone who has and how often do you think this actually occurs?
2007-02-12 02:12:26 · 13 answers · asked by swilliams1106 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Law Enforcement & Police
Yes when I was 17 years old walking back from a nightclub with 2 friends, I was approuched by lots of angry police who now I know was involved in a car chase, They thought me & my friends were in the car even tho we were on foot,
They said I was the driver & 5 police officers laid into me kicking & punching me, I went to the police station to make a complaint hours later with bruises & black eye. they said the cctv wasnt working that night. I weent to tyhe local newspaper and they told my storey.
Days later a sergent came to my house saying they'll pay me 350 quid to forget it all, & if I tryed taking it to court I would get more hasstle off police growing up. I so much regret taking the money!!
2007-02-14 03:09:43 · answer #1 · answered by Toby G* 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have been a victim of police brutality,and still have the baton scars on my head to prove it,i also knew a guy who was undoubtedly murdered by the Glasgow Police. Do a little research in to deaths in Police custody in the UK,and im sure you will be astounded at the numbers of people who never came out alive from british police stations,they have been getting away with it for a long time. Should you need further proof,check out what the RUC have been doing for years in the north of ireland...Sectarian Killer Policemen getting away with murder I
2007-02-14 12:42:48 · answer #2 · answered by stef8705 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well thankfully i have never put myself in a position where police brutality was an option...however i believe this happens more often than not... the show cops and other law enforcement videos show not only the stupidity of some people but also glaringly the amount of force that some of the police use to subdue these idiots can be viewed as unwarranted, however i believe that society views these occurrences as acceptable when they are paired with the video of the pursuit and public destruction committed by the offender.. but who polices the police...certainly not the general public...we can yell and scream..but in the end..they have a difficult job to do...where i would be tasked to use restraint when dealing with someone who just raped someone and give them their rights they show restraint and arrest the individual...i would most likely just shoot the idiot ...but then that why i am not a police officer....
you should just say thanks for doing the job that they do..and if in the end a few get unduly roughed up in the process..well so be it...call it the cost of being able to walk the streets without every thug thinking because they carry a weapon that they can intimidate and take advantage.
my two cents.
2007-02-12 10:24:47 · answer #3 · answered by Cesar G 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Which country?No doubt police brutallity does occur and is always wrong.Some of the people who state this happened to my mate or friend are just giving heresay accounts.I found that often people who had a go at police or who needed to be subdued due to their own conduct itold everyone that would listen how they had been beaten up through no fault of their own and of course they had the injuries to prove it.
2007-02-12 11:02:33 · answer #4 · answered by frankturk50 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Police brutality is more prevalent than one imagines, because every police department have people who just can't handle authority. They abuse it, because they themselves have been abused earlier in life, and now it is get even time, and these cowards are hiding behind police badges to do their dastardly deeds. Psychological testing prior toentering the police dept. is good, but some of these guys fall through the cracks, and become police officers, until they are rooted out , fired and prosecuted.
2007-02-12 10:19:50 · answer #5 · answered by WC 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Yes, I went to watch Derby County play Bolton in 1993 and I got "beat up" by three policemen, I was in a right state, Its too much of a long story to tell you all about it, but I did not do anything wrong and they tried to do me for threatening behaviour.
It wasn't all bad news, when they took me to court, the Bolton police didn't expect what happened next!! I had two Derby County stewards stand up and say I didn't do anything wrong in Bolton's ground and even better, Two Derby police man (who were stunned by what they saw) actually stood up in court and testified that they saw the police assault me.
I ended up receiving £4000 in compensation, but that took 4 YEARS to get!!!
2007-02-12 13:03:51 · answer #6 · answered by Paul C 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
No - but certainly of police stupidity - I had something stolen from a mens locker room and they sent two female offices to 'investigate' :S
Recently someone was repeatedly trying to break down the front door into our flats to get to someone girls house that he was horny for (but who just wasn't for letting him in) and the police just said - how do you know he's not just a neighbour who's forgotten his keys?
What made it worse was that I towered over the officer that came to see us about it and I'm only 5'8"!
2007-02-12 10:23:17 · answer #7 · answered by circusmort 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Not of brutality, but of misjuctice, and discrimination. The police often find it difficult to see past their assumptions.
2007-02-12 10:16:00 · answer #8 · answered by Barbara Doll to you 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I am sure it does go on, hardly surprising in the UK as the police here are absolutely useless unless enforcing petty law onto already law abiding people.
2007-02-12 19:21:10 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
No but I have seen it reported on the news when at 4 a.m they terrorise innocent victims & occasionally shoot innocent victims carrying a bit of wood or walking to the undergroumd.
I have seen also a lot of soft targets driving cars being terrorised by speed cameras.
2007-02-12 12:53:47 · answer #10 · answered by ANDREW H 4 · 0⤊ 3⤋