[robski]

The location known as 'between a rock and a hard place' is the chosen environment of an active police officer. The pleasant and unpleasant duties are part of the job spec. The stock phases "that an officer had to handle a difficult situation" don't wash with me. That is what they are paid to do.

There are countless other phases used as responses no doubt part the officers training.

It beholds the officer to understand the operating environment of that place, for he is sworn to uphold the law, not to enforce his personal opinions on right or wrong.

What I believe gets up peoples nose is when an officer has to take control and assert his authority in circumstances where it is totally uncalled for. When a person calmly expresses a view which is legal but different from the officers opinion it suddenly becomes they are disorderly. Because in the officers opinion the person is disorderly they are at liberty to abuse the persons civil rights with all manor of powers available to them.

Like it or not we live in a culture of a police state and a stick is used to keeps us firmly under control. One does question the logic of some the new laws being introduced. They seem to be more about money, power and control than protecting the bulk of citizens. I only hope that society rebells against this constant erosion of civil liberties otherwise we will end up as programmed machines in the system. No free will, no free spirit, just existing waiting to die. If some people had their way micro chips would be inserted at birth and then charge us for every breath of air. So many people have lost site of the fact that Planet Earth is a dangerous place so get used to it. You cannot protect or make laws for every possible event so why try.

I am of the opinion that the police bring many of the problems upon themselves by their actions.

Radical thoughts I know but then I'm a radical person. (no law against it as far as I know )