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[pan]

Spoken like someone with a chip on his shoulder. I'm telling you Spa Man, I respect that you're hurting given what you've been through, and we all agree that there are plenty of bad cops out there, but your generalisations are ludicrous. For them to be anywhere near true you would have to have intimate/direct knowledge about most police officers in NSW, which you obviously don't. You seem to do what the media does... either pick some examples and generalise about the rest of them or rely on unjustified and anecdotal allegations. I DO know a hell of a lot of them and have worked with them for over a decade, and most have their heart in the right place. You never hear mothers who lost their teenage kids after high speed accidents complaining about cops being too harsh. You never hear wives who had husbands killed while drink driving complaining cops are too harsh. YOU never hear the traumatic descriptions of what road carnage Highway Patrol Officers put up with on a regular basis. You are only looking at it from your perspective. You don't work in prisons every day. You rely on more anecdotal information. Do a search on the Bureau of stats and you'll notice crime is increasing, population is increasing, and as a result we need more prisons... though the crimes people are in prison for that are increasing the most are violent crimes, not traffic offences. 80 coppers are leaving a month. Probably true. How many are Hwy Patrol?

Quote:Paying $600 a week for 6 months to get drivers so you can earn a living allows me to make generalisations

Maybe it does for you, but don't expect rational people to believe them. We have a mind of our own and I'm not going to go around mouthing off about people or stand back to watch you denegrate them all as a group simply because you don't have any respect for them. I am proud of the work police do. I'm glad they do it. I would not want to do what they have to do. If I break the rules and get caught I hope I accept responsibility for my faults. If I am hard-done by, I hope I fight it and speak my mind about any unfairness to my friends. I sure as hell hope I don't go around "throwing out the baby with the bathwater", then arguing and trying to convince my friends that "they are all bastards". <i>Edited by: pan&nbsp; at: 21/12/06 0:28
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