Bradford Degeneration Correct but not Politically Correct

Not if this disturbing report is anything to go by. Firstly it is disturbing that the police are so inept at dealing with mentally compromised individuals that they managed to escalate a simple situation of someone self-harming into one where that person threatened others and had to be stunned using what any sensible person would view as an instrument of torture - substituting a weapon for poor people skills is not clever at all. Even worse is that the response of the supposedly responsible police union isn't to demand the suspension of the police officers that caused this incident and an enquiry into why they managed to let things get so out of control but to suggest that every police officer should carry these implements of torture. Now I know the fact is that the majority of officers would use such things sensibly but as long as there are bad apples in the police and it is obvious there are then I don't think stun guns should be issued to all officers.

I have personally encountered some who would just use it to torture people who annoyed them. In particular the one who told me to "fuck off, it's none of your business" when I suggested they stop harassing the victims of a stabbing incident and go talk to the person who had pulled the knife. Another example is the WPC in this incident who thought it necessary to push the head of a handcuffed suspect in and out of a convenient privet hedge.

Like every oxford-educated professional I used to think the police were a force for good in society, now I have my doubts and increasingly view them as an unwelcome and unnecessarily aggressive force enforcing laws of a repressive state I don't approve of.